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by okasaki 1541 days ago
It seems that sometimes the push is external. A few days ago Canonical announced that they would switch Firefox to snap because that's the only way Mozilla will allow them to redistribute it.
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codethief 1541 days ago
> because that's the only way Mozilla will allow them to redistribute it.

I doubt this is the whole truth, compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800957

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oofbey 1541 days ago
Having a user app like Firefox force autoupdate is not that bad IMHO. Having server infrastructure components update themselves automatically can be disastrous. This caught me by surprise, painfully.

Snap for GUI apps, okay, fine. Snap for system infrastructure, no thank you.

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broknbottle 1540 days ago
It's bad when the user is actively using the application and snapd decides to update the Firefox snap and cause issues.
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tjoff 1540 days ago
Yeah, suffered from this last Friday with firefox.

Quite bad timing and since I surf mostly in private mode I'm not so keen on a restart at inopportune times since my state will be completely wiped.

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