What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package.
I am having to remove the meta package, then re-uninstall the snap firefox, then re-uninstall Snap, then install pin the latest build I could get (firefox_116.0.3+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1_arm64.deb) to keep the native firefox build.
I’m so done with Ubuntu.
Nothing stopping anyone from installing by any other means though. This is just Canonical forcing their official channels to make sure they are pushing security fixes as fast as possible to desktop users.
Wouldn’t it be faster to just use binaries directly from Mozilla?
Not necessarily. If you’re just a single user on a machine, and you don’t have any profiles to locate and move to match Mozilla’s binaries, it would be just as fast. Client-side updates would be a pain to manage though.