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woelkchen ,
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How can I bring these buttons back?

flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox because fuck Snap

JTskulk ,

Why use flatpak when you can just use deb repositories?

hunger ,
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@JTskulk @woelkchen Because I can easily limit which files are seen by applications in a flatpak.

I love being certain that my browsers can not access my ssh keys or actually anything outside the Downloads folder.

JTskulk ,

This is a good reason I suppose, not sure if the other methods are better.

mokazemi ,
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Unfortunately you can’t install Firefox deb in Ubuntu anymore (just like chromium). Canonical doing sh*t!

ami ,
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@mokazemi
You may want to take a look at the @tuxedocomputers repositories, that's how I get my .
(Full disclosure: I bought a machine with it preinstalled)
@JTskulk

JTskulk ,

Not true, I ran Kununtu until March and I removed snap and used the official Mozilla PPA. It worked better than snap and probably flatpak too.

woelkchen ,
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Why use flatpak when you can just use deb repositories?

I listed one way that I know works because that’s how I use Firefox on my Steam Deck (which in turn uses Plasma 5 as desktop, same as Kubuntu). If a deb package from some PPA works just as well: great.

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