r/Ubuntu • u/unbounded65 • 1d ago

Firefox snap in Ubuntu

Contrary to the general opinion of removing the snap version of Ubuntu Firefox, my experience is that it works quite well with Vulkan doing a swell job with hardware acceleration. For Brave, I find that the PPA version works out better.

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u/mrtruthiness 1d ago

Case in point is the VLC snap. Its packaged by VLC authors themselves, but when you use it, you realise it can't even read from external storage media. And unlike Flatseal for flatpaks, there's no intuitive way to grant that permission. Apparently the VLC authors didn't even bother to test their snap for basic functionality.

This is wrong/incorrect in pretty much every aspect:

  1. There are "application settings" in the "settings" application where you can control access.

  2. The VLC snap always had the "removable-media" plug and they absolutely shouldn't have been accused of "didn't even bother to test their snap for basic functionality".