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Feature Freeze Exception: Seeding the official Firefox snap in Ubuntu Desktop
discourse.ubuntu.comPlanting the Firefox snap seed Today, Sept 16th 2021, the Desktop Team has opened a Feature Freeze exception to replace the Firefox seed in ubuntu-desktop from a deb package to a Mozilla-official Firefox snap. This is the result of cooperation and collaboration between the Desktop and Snap teams at Canonical and Mozilla developers, and is the first step towards a deb-to-snap transition that will take place during the 22.04 development cycle. What does this mean, and who does it affect? This wil...
Truly annoying. Enforcing Snaps everywhere was one of the reasons I Switched to Arch.