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THANK YOU!! I started to think I was going crazy with Firefox!! Their updates kept messing around with where the program and profiles were aligned to, the path and files sometimes the way they would be with a .deb and sometimes they were where you’d find a snap package. Also have to keep unpinning it or it would start launching new windows without current settings.
Does their dev team have both being done and they keep fucking around with which is going to be used next? I still can’t figure out what’s going on there.
You know, I assumed Canonical was pulling something, but it's possible it was also just incompetence. I didn't think they even distributed a .deb version of Firefox, so it definitely felt like they WANTED me to use snap Firefox...and then I'd start wondering why it was so important. What vested interest would Canonical have in me using snap Firefox? Maybe it was just honest mistakes.
Linux is about freedom to make our own choices, and whatever is happening with Canonical (malice or ineptitude) was getting away from that. Kubuntu feels like, "We've made this garden for you and we recommend you stay inside it." Debian feels like, "Hey, man, you wanna go hose your system? Here's the apt command to do that. Have a good day." (Apparently, I measure true power as ability to screw things up.)
Slackware: "You have all of the power. Right now. And all of the responsibility."
From a few years ago but maybe they’re still in cahoots lol.
https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-firefox-snap-default/
That sounds like it's mostly about the default install, and I don't have a problem with them making the default a snap - as I said, sandboxing a browser probably is a good idea from a security perspective, and most people probably aren't going to care about snap vs. deb installs, so why not go with the safer alternative?
My issue was that it kept switching back to snaps even after I tried to go to .deb installations. It happened at least three or four times. It would be fine for several months, then something would happen during an update, and it would switch back.
I didn't have the concerns the article mentions about it automatically updating; it would only update whenever I told software in general to update.
Yeah I don’t disagree I was just providing reference info.