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Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox? (lemm.ee)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I'm not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, I am agreeing with you. The statement was never snap and deb are identical, its that canonical is making them do identical things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I just liked that bit of the meme. In the prank the meme is based on, they really are the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Chromium too iirc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Yup, apt install chromium-browser calls snap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There's a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default.