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0 pointsokasaki4y ago0 comments

It seems that sometimes the push is external. A few days ago Canonical announced that they would switch Firefox to snap because that's the only way Mozilla will allow them to redistribute it.

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codethief4y ago

> because that's the only way Mozilla will allow them to redistribute it.

I doubt this is the whole truth, compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800957

oofbey4y ago

Having a user app like Firefox force autoupdate is not that bad IMHO. Having server infrastructure components update themselves automatically can be disastrous. This caught me by surprise, painfully.

Snap for GUI apps, okay, fine. Snap for system infrastructure, no thank you.

broknbottle4y ago

It's bad when the user is actively using the application and snapd decides to update the Firefox snap and cause issues.

tjoff4y ago

Yeah, suffered from this last Friday with firefox.

Quite bad timing and since I surf mostly in private mode I'm not so keen on a restart at inopportune times since my state will be completely wiped.

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