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Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 hours ago by sourov@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla's instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How did you get snap on mint?! 😆I once tried it as a noob and mint was always “snap bad! Don’t do this! You will regret” even on try to circumvent it 🤣

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I swear it was the default already installed. Maybe I'm misremembering.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Mint never preinstalled the snap. They package their own version of Firefox. I believe they have an agreement with Mozilla.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Maybe it was that i had to install the snap version (or maybe flatpak?) and uninstall theirs, which fixed the crashes. I thought it was a hardware issue for awhile because it was so random.