Firefox snap updates for non-technical users

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 13:51:13 UTC 2022


On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 14:45, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> the switch to the snap was done on mozillas request and it freed up a
> full time developer in the desktop team who all of a sudden only has to
> watch one snap instead of five debs on six different supported ubuntu
> releases

Does that mean that the firefox on my 20.04 machine is no longer
getting updates?
$ apt policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Candidate: 104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 104.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main
amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     75.0+build3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

Colin




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