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by FrenchAmerican 1547 days ago
As long as LibreWolf isn't snap-only... so we should contribute to their effort by funding them, if we want them to last.

"Pay your maintainers" should become the norm to all users of FLOSS. We must lobby our bosses to make regular donations to maintainers of the FOSS software used by the company. That's a purely rational business decision, not an ideological one.

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The problem isn't Mozilla/Firefox in this case. It is Canonical/Ubuntu.

Firefox on most other distro (debian based or otherwise) can be installed with the proper system package manager.

Additionally Mozilla offers a flatpak version of Firefox which I strongly prefer over snap.

It's just Canonical's disdain to anything not homegrown that's behind this move.