After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla’s instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    9 months ago

    Yes, this is known. They do the same for Chromium. If you want a browser from ubuntu, it’s going to be a snap.

    • Morphit @feddit.uk
      3·
      9 months ago

      w3m is a proper deb 😛

      Looks like only firefox, chromium-browser and thunderbird are these dummy transitional packages. There’s a fwupd-snap, but the default fwupd is a full deb.