Trying to remove FireFox

Lily White lilywhite2005 at outlook.com
Thu Nov 18 11:03:07 UTC 2021


I do recall manually deleting some trash because snap flatly refuses to 
let me remove them with it.

But I don't care about messing with dependencies or whatnot because I 
won't be using it, which may not be most people's case.

Off-topic: P.S How exactly do you keep your signature from being messed 
by the "tail" added by the list?


On 11/17/21 20:22, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 17 November 2021  at 12:04, Liam Proven wrote:
> Re: Trying to remove FireFox (at least in part)
> 
>> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 07:37, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
>> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Did you remove all the snap(ed) apps first, or do you have "snap trash" left?
> 
>> I did. It is Ubuntu *Server* though, so there are very few.
> 
>>> That or Brave was my intent (on laptops I also add Tor, just incase)
> 
>> I advise avoiding Brave. The browser has a nasty history of rewriting
>> links to financial benefit the project:
> 
>> It deals in cryptocurrencies, which is a very bad thing:
> 
> I did hear (on Ubuntu PodCast and/or Late Night Linux) it crpto mines to
> finance development, which encouraged me to research, and I was not that happy
> with the idea
> 
>> On the other hand, I have noted some IMHO tasteless religious comments
>> in your email sig before, so perhaps you approve of that. :-(
> 
> I don't have an Email Sig for any mailing list as humour is not constant across
> the net, I have checked through sigs I may have used for "private" emails and
> all of them stick to the same rule as most lists i.e. no "politics, religion or
> football"
> 
>> If you want an all-FOSS Blink-based browser with no Google tracking,
> 
>> If that Google-sponsored product is too much, try Iridium:
>> https://iridiumbrowser.de/
>> https://websetnet.net/how-to-install-iridium-browser-on-ubuntu/
>> Or GNU IceCat:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
> 
> Thanks for those pointers, I will investigate them, once I get rid of FF
> 
>> Vivaldi is also pretty good.
>> https://vivaldi.com/
> 
> I had Vivaldi but moved away
> 
> 

-- 
 From LilyWhite with love
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