Snaps: a failed experiment

[Oliver Grawert]

Hi,
Am Dienstag, dem 23.09.2025 um 08:20 -0400 schrieb Sam Varshavchik:
> 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.
> 

The mozillateam is mainly a few developers from Canonical from the
security and desktop teams (I think there is also a mozilla dev
involved, but mozilla is definitely not running this PPA).

The PPA exists solely for building, backporting and testing security
updates for older LTS releases, once 16.04 is out of commercial support
all older LTS releases will eventually be defaulting to the snap in
which case this PPA will silently go away and people that use it will
not recieve any updates for the browser anymore without even getting a
notification (since the PPA was never purposed to be used by endusers
in teh first place)...

Use the archive provided by mozilla themselves or use the self-updating
firefox tarball if you want to be sure to keep getting updates ...

ciao
	oli
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