What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.
I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.
I’m so done with Ubuntu.
Hear me out, why not just use snap?
First, it’s a version behind, prompting Firefox to ask me to erase my existing profile. That’s not going to do. Second, it’s not able to have Widevine added to it, which is needed for video / screen sharing in Teams web client.
Because it forces me to have a
snapdirectory in my home dir which I otherwise keep very tidy. At least let me put it in.snapor something like any decent piece of software. The snap developers don’t respect users at all.Cuz the damn PWA and keepass extensions don’t work.
Sorry, but the keepassxc extension works flawlessly.