Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it

Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by yoavm on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:28AM (#24383778)

> Second, I use Firefox and anything that discourages people from feeding the Chrome monopoly, frankly, that sounds like a good thing to me.

I'm sorry but can you explain? How exactly is Snap helping Firefox? (I'm a Firefox user and I have never used Snap)

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by CarelessExpert on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:43AM (#24383888)

It's an admittedly weaker point: If folks want to avoid snaps (as this blogger professes) but choose Ubuntu then their next best option is (the default browser on Ubuntu): Firefox.

I guess a more succinct way to put it is: I actively oppose chrome and really don't care if the snap haters are screwed by Canonical's approach to packaging it.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by a1369209993 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:48AM (#24389507)

I agree with you about chrome, but your point only works if nothing other than chrome is dependent on snaps, which seems clearly not what Canonical is aiming for.

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by 1_player on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:32AM (#24383800)

Especially since Firefox have an officially maintained Flatpak package which works beautifully, at least on my machine.

Is the snap version of FF maintained by Mozilla, by any chance?

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Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it by codethief on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:41AM (#24383873)

I second that question. Currently Ubuntu only forces Chromium to be installed as snap, not Google Chrome.

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