You may need to move away from Ubuntu to an Ubuntu-based distro. Pop!_OS still packages firefox as a deb
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Firefox snap on Ubuntu is still slow to start after all this time. The binary from Mozilla starts nearly instantly.
@PseudoSpock add Linux Mint repository and install Firefox from there, as described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1386738/how-to-install-chromium-from-the-linux-mint-repositories-in-ubuntu
Or switch to Linux Mint entirely, like I did :ablobcatbongo:
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The last time I had to deal with Firefox-Snap on a fresh Ubuntu install, it kept crashing on launch. Grabbed a tarball and that justworks (TM). That was around a year ago. Hopefully the situation has gotten better.
This may be caused by pinned versions or preferences not being setup correctly in your apt config, rather than a problem with the PPA. It could have been caused by the recent 117 update.
In /etc/apt/preferences.d/ you can create files to control which versions and releases are used for which packages. This is how linux mint prevents snap from getting in, (even though they package their own firefox with its own customizations). Setting up something like:
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
and
Package: firefox
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
should get it working better for any further upgrades
What PPA was it? I'm using this one and it seems to be still native. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt
That said - I'm experimenting with NixOS to move to.
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