From: frede@mouse-potato.com   
      
   "Jonathan N. Little"  writes:   
      
   > Joerg Walther wrote:   
   >> Jonathan N. Little wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Okay Canonical, how come your snap version of Firefox does not   
   >>> automatically upgrade when other packages do and the deb version did?   
   >>   
   >> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS here, Firefox version is 135.0.1, which is the most   
   >> recent version from 18 Feb, it was installed automatically, no snap   
   >> refresh command was involved. So is there something blocking your update   
   >> mechanism?   
   >>   
   >> -jw-   
   >>   
   > Don't think so. I manually updated the snap version on my EliteBook from   
   > 134.0 to now 135.0.1. I will see if it updates to the next version on   
   > its own.   
      
   Snaps have been updating promptly for me so far, including FFox. I get a   
   notification on the desktop when there's a new version available and it   
   tells me I can exit FFox to have it applied immediately.   
      
   I'm kind of on the fence with snaps. I don't think they're that   
   worthwhile because they're kind of proprietary to Canonical. As such,   
   they don't help developers reduce the number of packaging formats they   
   have to support. It might be better if Canonical would just suck it up   
   and support flatpak instead since that seems to be getting mindshare.   
      
   Given that snaps are more or less limited to Ubuntu at this time, I   
   think that I'd prefer they just go back to using deb packages. Those   
   always worked fine, apps started up faster, and my impression was that   
   they used less disk and RAM too.   
      
   Maybe there's some advantage to snaps that I'm missing? (Other than   
   trying to lock developers and users into the Ubuntu ecosystem...)   
      
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