non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:27:22 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 3:26 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a third-party repo with current version of Firefox for Ubuntu
> > 22.04?
> > I don't really want to run the snapd version (and no I am not really
> > interested in either Chrome or Chromium either). (There are a number of
> > problems with that, including not being able to load random local HTML
> > files.)
> >
> 
> As others have said, I use Firefox snap and I've had no problem opening
> "random local HTML files." UNLESS you actually mean you want it to RANDOMLY
> open local HTML files; that might be a challenge. :-)

No, I have *heard* on another list (JMRI Users) that the snap version could
not/would not open JMRI's help files and that the "cure" was to get a non-snap
version of FF or another browser. I am a software developer and create (via
Doxygen) HTML help files that I sometimes need/want to check. Also I *don't*
use a HTML E-Mail client and sometime people send me HTML E-Mail, so I need to
save the message and then open it with FF.

Also: the snap version would not open my local style settings, didn't open my
existing FF preferences/plugins/bookmarks (it insisted I create a new profile
and then kept asking which profile to use everytime). Also, it was coming up
with this "no window manager" type of screen ("override redirect" -- eg not
letting my window manager manage its windows and insisting on managing its
windows itself). I don't have anything against snaps per se, just the specific
snap version of FF, which seems to do things in a way that is unfriendly *to
me*.

> 
> I don't intend to be incendiary, but I hope ALL of the folks avoiding
> snaps, particularly Firefox, will regularly fire up a VM or bootable image
> of Ubuntu and try the latest. The developers (and related infrastructure
> folks) addressed most of MY concerns a few versions ago, so I've been
> mostly happily using the snap version of Firefox for a while now. I
> even use it "seamlessly" with KeePassXC's browser extension. With
> the latest snapd you get more control over when snap updates occur, if
> that's your concern. The startup delay issues have been addressed very
> nicely, I think.
> 
> For folks still avoiding snaps on "principle," then please consider, why
> use Ubuntu? If another distro is running in front of you, then please
> consider building better support for your preferred distro instead of
> bad-mouthing snaps here.
> 

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