Proton.me not liking firefox version. Says its not compatable

[securitydog77]

Already done that, updated ubuntu and firefox snap. Firefox does not update.

I am wondering if there are favorite search engines?

 

[securitydog77]

I am wondering if there are favorite search engines?

Wondering if I should get rid of firefox snap and download the normal version?

 

[KGIII]

How to install Firefox as a traditional deb package (without snap) in Ubuntu 22.04 or later versions?

As far as I see in the ongoing development for 22.04 Jammy, Firefox is a Snap package. The related Deb package in apt is just a shortcut/link to the that snap version. I prefer my installation not ...

askubuntu.com

I'm not sure if anybody has asked this yet. I think we've all just made assumptions, but I may have missed a post and a reply.

Has anyone asked you how you installed Firefox in the first place? Normally, Ubuntu will ship with Firefox. Did you do something else to install it, such as add a PPA or maybe install from a .deb that you found somewhere?

 

[Mike-BTU]

What's the output of the following, please?

snap refresh --list

 

[GatorsFan]

If you remove all old Firefox browsers first before doing this

To install Firefox for Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions from the Mozilla PPA - APT repository, instead of snap packages do the following:

1) Create a directory to store APT repository keys - if it doesn't already exist check this location first - if it exists then skip this step

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings

2) Import the Mozilla APT repository signing key:

wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null

If you do not have wget installed, you can install it with:

sudo apt install wget

3) Next, add the Mozilla APT repository to your sources list:

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null

4) Configure APT to prioritize packages from the Mozilla repository:

echo '
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla

5) Update your package list and install the Firefox .deb package:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox

For those of you who would like to use Firefox in a different language than American English, Mozilla has created .deb packages containing the Firefox language packs. To install a specific language pack, replace fr - (French) in the example below with the desired language code:

sudo apt install firefox-l10n-fr

To list all the available language packs, you can use this command after adding the Mozilla APT repository and running

sudo apt update
apt-cache search firefox-l10n

 

[ron.alan]

Wondering if I should get rid of firefox snap and download the normal version?

I would. And by "normal," I hope you mean the repo version.

 

[deb_user]

Even Debian Stable, certainly far behind the leading edge, is on 140. I avoid snaps at all costs. And I do mean ALL COSTS. I'll use appimage if absolutely, positively necessary, but I'm currently using none. Firefox is in every distro repository I know of, but I certainly don't know of every one. It's absolutely in the Ubuntu repositories.

 

[securitydog77]

How to install Firefox as a traditional deb package (without snap) in Ubuntu 22.04 or later versions?

As far as I see in the ongoing development for 22.04 Jammy, Firefox is a Snap package. The related Deb package in apt is just a shortcut/link to the that snap version. I prefer my installation not ...

askubuntu.com

I'm not sure if anybody has asked this yet. I think we've all just made assumptions, but I may have missed a post and a reply.

Has anyone asked you how you installed Firefox in the first place? Normally, Ubuntu will ship with Firefox. Did you do something else to install it, such as add a PPA or maybe install from a .deb that you found somewhere?

I believe it came with the distro.

 

[deb_user]

Wait, what? Ubuntu has gone so far as to require snaps for basic packages? I admit I haven't been paying attention to it for some time. This just reinforces my belief that Ubuntu is a distro to stay far away from.

 

[ron.alan]

This just reinforces my belief that Ubuntu is a distro to stay far away from.

I agree 100%.