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The Firefox snap: Updates and Upgrades

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 17, 2023

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The official Firefox snap offers a number of benefits to daily users of Ubuntu, as well as a range of other Linux distributions. It improves security, delivers cross-release compatibility and shortens the time for improvements from Mozilla to get into the hands of end-users.

Since the user experience of our default browser is imperative to our work, we’ve made significant improvements to snap startup times and identified a number of additional issues to resolve along the way.

It’s been a while since our last update, but both Mozilla and the Canonical team have continued to make further improvements to the Firefox snap experience over the last few months.

With some key features recently landed, we thought it was time to give the community a roundup of fresh news and fixes as we ramp up to the release of Ubuntu 23.04! Let’s start with our most… highly requested feature.

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