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   From: mo01@posteo.de   
      
   Am 21.01.2023 um 03:51:37 Uhr schrieb JanC:   
      
   > On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:09:10 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:   
   >    
   > > True, but packages like chromium or firefox aren't available via apt   
   > > anymore and there is no real reason for that.   
   > > I assume Canonical wants to make users use snap.     
   >    
   > According to people at Canonical I chatted with, the reason why   
   > Firefox is a snap now is that Mozilla wanted it so (it’s Mozilla   
   > employees who maintain those packages in Ubuntu, not Canonical   
   > employees), and thus it wasn’t a Canonical decision.   
      
   I can believe that Mozilla wants that (Mozilla already wanted many   
   nasty things), but the people at Canonical could create deb packages,   
   like Debian does.   
      
   > But the snap-ed Firefox is still broken with issues that have been   
   > known for over a year (even longer if you also consider that the same   
   > issue already existed in the Chromium package too!), so I hold both   
   > Mozilla and Canonical responsible for this ungoing fiasco: Mozilla   
   > for deciding to use Snap prematurely, the other for allowing them to   
   > do it (it’s their distro after all).   
      
   Other distros like Debian, Mint, Slackware etc. don't use snap by   
   default, the provide FF with their normal packaging system.   
      
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