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		jckahn on April 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap) Correct! Removing Snap Firefox and installing Flatpak Firefox was the first thing I did on my 22.04 install.

jetbalsa on April 24, 2022 [–]

Wait.. Why a flatpack? Isn't that just as bad?

3836293648 on April 24, 2022 | [–]

No, it really isn't. There are a lot of issues with both snap and flatpak, but the issue at hand is performance, specifically boot times. Snap is far, far behind every other solution out there

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