After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla’s instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    4 hours ago

    From a security standpoint? Not even close. From a software-release validation requirement, not even in the same galaxy. If they look the same, it’s only due to Clarke’s law.

    • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      3 hours ago

      You are missing the attribution. The person you are replying to is making a joke that Canonical says they are the same, not that they are actually the same.

      • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Clearly they’re cosplaying as a Canonical engineer whose internal explanation and pleas for them to not take this approach fell upon deaf ears /j

      • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
        13·
        3 hours ago

        That is not the same thing as “snap and apt Firefox are the same”. They just hijacked apt to force snap in.

        • Morphit
          7·
          2 hours ago

          So both commands do the same thing… right? I’m not saying snap and apt are the same in general.

          • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
            3·
            2 hours ago

            Yeah for sure, I read your comment as excusing canonical screwing with user intent but I see that’s not what you meant.

        • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
          4·
          3 hours ago

          You are missing the attribution. The person you are replying to is making a joke that Canonical says they are the same, not that they are actually the same.

          • Morphit
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I’m not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.

            • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
              2·
              43 minutes ago

              Yep, I am agreeing with you. The statement was never snap and deb are identical, its that canonical is making them do identical things.

              • Morphit
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Yup, apt install chromium-browser calls snap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There’s a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default.