I honestly don’t understand why it’s a snap by default now. I’ve never got it to really function the way I want as a snap. Puts a sour taste in my mouth for Ubuntu altogether.
Yep. I removed the snap and installed it from tarball. Automatic updates don’t work quite right so I just wrote a bash script that runs the update process for me.
Especially since snaps cause tons of problems, for some reason. I actually switched to Debian a while ago because the snap Firefox kept randomly forgetting history items, cookies, settings, etc.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, when you right-click on an image and select “Save As…”, that’s just flat out broken on Ubuntu 22.04, due to it being shipped as a Snap.
And the Download-folder it uses, is in some random, deeply nested sub-directory of ~/snap/.
I honestly don’t understand why it’s a snap by default now. I’ve never got it to really function the way I want as a snap. Puts a sour taste in my mouth for Ubuntu altogether.
Yep. I removed the snap and installed it from tarball. Automatic updates don’t work quite right so I just wrote a bash script that runs the update process for me.
Especially since snaps cause tons of problems, for some reason. I actually switched to Debian a while ago because the snap Firefox kept randomly forgetting history items, cookies, settings, etc.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, when you right-click on an image and select “Save As…”, that’s just flat out broken on Ubuntu 22.04, due to it being shipped as a Snap.
And the Download-folder it uses, is in some random, deeply nested sub-directory of
~/snap/.bruh, even in flatpak it works fine
The worse thing is that is not even available as a .deb anymore (or is pretty well hidden).
You can download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla’s webpage, which you can unpack and then just launch the
firefoxbinary inside it.But yeah, if you want proper integration into the desktop environment, it takes some manual steps, which a .deb would do for you.
If you are willing to download a .tar.bz2 from Mozilla, you can also download the .deb file from the Debian repos