After creating a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04, I installed DEB Firefox from APT by following Mozilla’s instructions from here. But I noticed that it was secretly replaced with Snap Firefox. I was able to verify this by checking the About Firefox page. This is the third time I noticed this.

  • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    You are missing the attribution. The person you are replying to is making a joke that Canonical says they are the same, not that they are actually the same.

    • Morphit @feddit.uk
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      4 hours ago

      Well, yes, except Canonical have made them actually do the same thing in the case of Firefox. I’m not aware of any other packages that have the deb install just run the snap install.

      • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Yep, I am agreeing with you. The statement was never snap and deb are identical, its that canonical is making them do identical things.

        • Morphit @feddit.uk
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          39 minutes ago

          Yeah, I just liked that bit of the meme. In the prank the meme is based on, they really are the same.

        • Morphit @feddit.uk
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          3 hours ago

          Yup, apt install chromium-browser calls snap install chromium. Looks like thunderbird is the same. There’s a fwupd-snap deb but fwupd seems to be the default.