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Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.

I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.

I'm so done with Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the binary provided by Mozilla at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

I even wrote an installation script that takes care of it all. (For amd64, not arm64. I'm not sure if they provide a stand-alone arm build.)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TIL about desktop-file-edit.

I’ve been doing desktop files by hand for years.

My favorite thing about the Mozilla binary is that it auto updates just like Windows, as long as you have write permissions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tend to do the same. Can you link it ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Their script has a really good example of using the “proper” tools to create, validate, and install the desktop file automagically. The tools themselves are likely already installed.