Snap is a really cool system and in some ways it's better than Flatpak. I understand the maintainability benefits over repo-packaged software. But, consistently, Snap-packaged software Does Not Work; Chromium broke when they snapified it, and now Firefox is broken on @ubuntu too.
I can't report bugs against it, because the support page for Mozilla is useless and the distro doesn't accept bugs against the snap version - even though, from a user perspective, the change is simple. "Firefox on Ubuntu used to be really good, and now it doesn't work."
I don't know what to say other than,
Canonical, you broke my heart. I've been a die-hard Ubuntu user since Lucid - on my first ever computer of my own! - and I think I'm done.
I'm getting a Lenovo 2242 NVMe SSD for my T480 in today, and I think I'm going to install Fedora.
@tindall @ubuntu@ubuntu.social both default installs are snapified in Ubuntu? I am afraid to upgrade.
@confusedcharlot Yep! The `chromium` package has just installed the snap for a while; `firefox` does so in 22.04
@confusedcharlot @tindall We tend to just use the tarball release, although the only reason we're doing that is because we need to run the beta version to be allowed to install our own extensions. Grrr.
It handles auto-update by itself (that link says it doesn't, nope, it does!) and is /very obnoxious/ about it.
@confusedcharlot @tindall [Non-ampified link: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/install-firefox-deb-ubuntu-22-04/]