By disabling snapd you can make the system a little faster to boot/login, but most of us aren’t booting our systems many times per day so that saving isn’t significant ( convenience to me is worth those few seconds), but you decide for yourself. On my boxes that have only 1GB of RAM, I tend to avoid snap packages but on most machines I find them very useful, even adding it on my Debian desktop ( where it’s not included by default) as it saves me time & energy as some apps come easily via snap packages. Whether or not snap is for you, only you can decide. Whilst snap packages don’t have depends requirements like deb packages do by design, they do use extensions, and firefox needs some of these, shown with snap info -verbose firefox |grep base:īase: grep default-provider /snap/firefox/current/meta/snap.yaml Snap:gtk-common-themes stable/ubuntu-22.04đ534 You can view the Lubuntu 22.04 manifest and see what snap packages we include it’s not many being those necessary for snap to run, and requirements of firefoxitself.įrom the current daily of jammy it’s snap:core20 stableđ405 Yes the benefit of snaps containing their dependencies within means they can be somewhat larger than deb packages, but that was dealt with by having them compressed as squashfs files side effect being their slow to load first time they’re run. There are situations where snap packages thrive over the various alternatives (Flatpak, AppImage etc), I’ve even read some express the view that’s not with Desktop apps but we’re a Ubuntu flavor and thus we’ll provide snap infrastructure (even if we decide not to provide snap packages).
#Ubuntu install mozilla firefox software
You can read this old thread which explains why chromium started being changed to a snap, which highlights a huge benefit in that it allows older/newer software than your base Ubuntu system would allow via deb dependencies (ie. Snap is a packaging system, which like everything, has benefits along with it’s ‘ drawbacks’. why is it among us? Is there any reason to banish it for good? Or snap is our overly needy friend, it does provide some service, but then takes up resources to do that?
Sudo wget -P /usr/local/share/applicationsĪnd, back to the question on snap. Sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefoxĪnd last but not least apply this command: You will be asked to enter your password.Īpply this command to make sure firefox is executable: Then extract the contents using this command: Now, we can proceed to installing the tar version of firefox! Type in your password, then wait until the snap is removed. in a terminal, type in sudo snap remove firefox.Only remove snapd if you don’t want it anymore. Precaution: I advice to remove the firefox snap before doing this. Note: This involves getting through a little bit of terminal, but we’ll just be copying and pasting commands here.
#Ubuntu install mozilla firefox how to
In light of firefox becoming a snap, i have a tutorial on how to replace the snap version with the version from mozilla’s website.
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