Article: Firefox providing .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu users.

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 15:49, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> I appear to have misconstrued one of your articles that you had
> published about Linux Mint, where, from memory, you had said something
> like the use of snap in Ubuntu, has been replaced with the use of
> flatpack in Linux Mint.

It has. But do not read more into that than it says.

"Flatpak replaces Snap" means just that: no Snap, Flatpak support preinstalled.

It does not mean "all snaps are replaced by flatpaks". I would say that if so.

Mint is justifiably proud of its native Firefox package. It eliminates
a bunch of issues. There is an eternal problem with security: things
that make systems more secure inevitably break stuff and the tradeoff
is unavoidable.

Mint, like several other Ubuntu derivatives with Flatpak, comes with
no flatpaks installed at all.

Zorin OS is the big exception here and it comes with some 15-20GB of
Flatpak apps by default. I have criticised this in reviews before.

> It goes back to the article that you had published, that caused me to
> trial Linux Mint. Which particular article, that involved, I do not know.

Glad to hear that.

> Then, whilst I may have misconstrued that, my contention that I believed
> that it was not that the .deb version of Firefox, was causing the
> problem of "YT videos now are all blocked ", but, more likely, that it
> was something to do with the particular installation of Wade Smart
> (which, now, cannot be checked, as that installation was deleted, rather
> than repaired, resulting in the fault being unresolved), seems to be
> validated.

I barely use YT and try to avoid video content. I have nothing useful
to offer on this.
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