The hate for snap on Linux forums always felt weird to me, I’ve literally never had issues with Firefox snap. I understand being frustrated with it on the principle that it feels Windows-y to force it on the system, but the Firefox snap is packaged by Mozilla and bundles the latest Mesa libraries instead of using the older libraries from the Debian repos that don’t have the latest performance fixes, so its also faster than installing through .deb. And Mozilla has Debian repos for Firefox you can add to your sources.list if you really insist. There’s also nothing preventing you from installing Flatpak and using that on Ubuntu.
Try to use any native extension from your browser, integrate with external password managers, or use third-party PKCS tokens, and you’ll start having less fun.
For me it was the forced automatic updates that made me lose data or waste time numerous times. One was doing taxes, another a full rework of my LinkedIn when I was out of work. I’d complete everything on the web page, press enter, and be greeted with a page telling me to restart to continue using Firefox.
You also only have the ability to pause it, no actual stopping it.
That’s extremely weird, I’ve never heard of Firefox not letting you browse until you update. When snap auto-updates Firefox there’s usually a notification bubble asking to close your browser to update but you can dismiss it and keep browsing in my experience.
It did it to me enough that I blocked firefox from talking to mozilla. I put it on a squid proxy for a few weeks and harvested every mozilla related address it touched and blocked them all. No more updating when I didn’t want it and forcing me to reload in the middle of something.
The hate for snap on Linux forums always felt weird to me, I’ve literally never had issues with Firefox snap. I understand being frustrated with it on the principle that it feels Windows-y to force it on the system, but the Firefox snap is packaged by Mozilla and bundles the latest Mesa libraries instead of using the older libraries from the Debian repos that don’t have the latest performance fixes, so its also faster than installing through .deb. And Mozilla has Debian repos for Firefox you can add to your sources.list if you really insist. There’s also nothing preventing you from installing Flatpak and using that on Ubuntu.
Try to use any native extension from your browser, integrate with external password managers, or use third-party PKCS tokens, and you’ll start having less fun.
i’ve always seen hate for it with reasons why
For me it was the forced automatic updates that made me lose data or waste time numerous times. One was doing taxes, another a full rework of my LinkedIn when I was out of work. I’d complete everything on the web page, press enter, and be greeted with a page telling me to restart to continue using Firefox.
You also only have the ability to pause it, no actual stopping it.
exactly. i don’t want anything on linux to update automatically.
i want to
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgradeand watch the console go brrrrrrrr
That’s extremely weird, I’ve never heard of Firefox not letting you browse until you update. When snap auto-updates Firefox there’s usually a notification bubble asking to close your browser to update but you can dismiss it and keep browsing in my experience.
It did it to me enough that I blocked firefox from talking to mozilla. I put it on a squid proxy for a few weeks and harvested every mozilla related address it touched and blocked them all. No more updating when I didn’t want it and forcing me to reload in the middle of something.