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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by Izkata on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:17PM (#23054995)
That... doesn't make sense. Chrome and Firefox (and possibly Chromium, I'm uncertain there) already can update out-of-band of apt/etc.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by eloisant on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:46PM (#23055185)
The idea is that the vendor can take care of the updates without having to go through all the package management system of all distributions
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by curt15 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:14PM (#23055318)
When you install Google Chrome for a deb, it's already set to update through Google's own apt repository. Presumably Firefox could do the same.
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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by Izkata on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:26PM (#23055390)
> Presumably Firefox could do the same.

At least when I encountered it a few years ago, if you go to Help -> About Firefox in the menu, it'll check for updates in the background, download the most recent version, and upgrade itself the next time you restarted the browser.

And yes, this was on Ubuntu.

So the capability is there, even if it's not on generally.

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