Snaps: a failed experiment

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Sep 23 12:20:40 UTC 2025


Liam Proven writes:

> On 21/09/2025 11:41 pm, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Ok, I had enough, and finally uninstalled the firefox snap, and hooked up  
>> the mozzilateam PPA in order to actually be able to use Firefox in a VNC  
>> desktop.
>
> Why the Mozillateam one? Why not just fetch it directly from Mozilla? It has  
> published an official repo for more than a year now.

mozillateam=mozilla, AFAIK.

> But your argument reads to me like "I can't use this tool therefore the tool  
> is broken and no good and I am going to attack the people who wrote it."

Which part of my previous message was an "attack"? I stated only facts:  
VNC+snap+firefox=fail, and it remains a fail several years later. Although  
not everyone uses VNC it is not a niche, boutique tool. It has a lot of  
users. Before 22 everything worked, so this is a significant regression.

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