[TriLUG] Big Problem with Firefox after Upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04

Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Sun Aug 14 12:23:18 EDT 2022


On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 11:44 AM Bill Weinel via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
[...]
> I also searched for further information on this issue and found none.
> According to the forums, Canonical gets the Firefox snap 'pre-compiled'
> from Mozilla for inclusion in the Ubuntu distribution.  Neither Mozilla
> or Canonical provided a script with the snap installer to move an
> existing profile directory to the new location... a shameful situation
> for an LTS release.  Hopefully they will fix that before the next point
> release.
>
      Also that reeks of the "blobs" of code for drivers and other
stuff so prevalent in Android phones, or the monetizing libraries
Google (and others) provides for developers. i.e. you have no idea of
what else is in the code.


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