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> I have to manually update Firefox each time a new release comes out because the version that's installed is a canonical-controlled version that stays 'stuck' on a old version and doesn't have an auto-update mechanism.

Doesn't Snap solve this?

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Yes, but only if you submit your code to Snapcraft. There's no way to host your own repository.

How so?

https://ubuntu.com/blog/howto-host-your-own-snap-store

In fact, Bret Barker has published an open source (Apache License) SNAP store on GitHub. We’re already looking at how to flesh out his proof-of-concept and bring it into snapcore itself.

https://github.com/noise/snapstore/

"snapstore was a minimalist example of a "store" for snaps, but is not compatible with the current snapd implementation. As a result I have removed the contents here to avoid further confusion."

See, no self hosting possible anymore.

But this is the opposite of the principles Linux has been built on. How can Canonical hope Snap gains popularity if the very software powering up the Snapstore is closed?

I don't care since i don't use *buntu. But they are not what i would call an OpenSource Company...lots of closesource-selfmade software like Juju and Snapstore.

The Flatpak version of Firefox is official and created by Mozilla. I don't think the Snap version is. If that matters to you then you may want to go with Flatpak over Snap.

The snap version of Mozilla is official and created by Mozilla.

Source: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/e6b8e53803e10244...

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/21/firefox-d...

The snap is also from Mozilla.

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