Telegram asked Ubuntu to transition users of its deb app to the officially-maintained Snap. The package is present in Lunar and may come to stable builds.
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Yes, you can finally install GNOME extensions using the Firefox Snap on Ubuntu, without having to do anything fancy like switching Snap channel. Phew!
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Ubuntu’s beleaguered Firefox Snap package is tackling another of longstanding criticism of it, namely its lack of native messaging support. It’s this fancy-sounding feature that allows Firefox add-ons to “exchange messages with a nati…
Read MoreCanonical has often talked about how it has improved the startup time of Snap apps yet, for many of us, the improvements remained theoretical.
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A Steam Snap app is now available for testing. Following an announcement at LAS Canonical says it’s “going all in” to improve the Linux gaming on Ubuntu. As part of that effort they want to simplify and smooth out the bumps currently …
Read MoreUbuntu’s founder pours cold water on the question of Ubuntu desktop supporting Flatpak, the fast-growing and popular open source packaging format.
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Snap app fans will want to check out an extension for GNOME Shell that makes it easier to manage, update, and configure software installed using the packaging format. It’s called Snap Manager and while it’s not an official Snapcraft/Canonic…
Read MoreCanonical is making changes to the system used for creating Snap apps, outlining its plans in a blog titled ‘The Future of Snapcraft’. More details inside.
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Ubuntu plans to make the Firefox Snap the default version for new installations of Ubuntu 21.10. A feature freeze exception (FFE) has been opened by Canonical’s Olivier Tilloy that seeks to replace the Firefox .deb package in the Ubuntu ‘se…
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