Firefox snap updates for non-technical users

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 1 14:27:13 UTC 2022


hi,
Am Donnerstag, dem 01.09.2022 um 14:51 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> 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?

heh, no, the old releases still get updates for their lifetime (but
they are essentially already done and just iterations/re-builds of new
source releases)

ciao
	oli
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