This was done to enable users of previous Ubuntu releases to upgrade to 22.04 LTS using Ubuntu’s Upgrade tool. Installing the Firefox package from Ubuntu’s repositories using APT will install the Snap package instead. If you wish to disable telemetry and advertising you need to do it yourself, instead of depending on your Linux distribution. The Firefox package on Ubuntu and Linux Mint now comes directly from Mozilla without any changes to the default settings. On the downside Mozilla now has more control over Firefox than ever before. The users benefit since they can use the latest Firefox even on older releases of Ubuntu.The Ubuntu team benefits since they no longer need to maintain their own packages.The Firefox team benefits since they don’t need to spend effort on supporting multiple Ubuntu releases.With snaps they can build a single package and deploy it to all supported Ubuntu releases. However this change was due to a request by Mozilla to reduce the effort required to support multiple Ubuntu releases. Many see this as an attempt by Canonical to push the Snap packaging format. Sudo flatpak remote-add -if-not-exists flathub įirefox is available as a Snap package in Ubuntu 22.04. Run the following commands to remove Snap packages and place a hold on snapd so that it is not installed automatically by other packages. If you don’t need them you can remove it to free up some disk space. Ubuntu 22.04 comes with some Snap packages pre-installed. However, similar to Flatpak and AppImages, Snaps make many software available for Linux which would not have been available otherwise. The Snap format receives a lot of hate for its slower startup time. They can package their software once, and it will run on every Linux distribution that has support for Snap and Flatpak. Snap and Flatpak packaging formats enable developers to distribute software more easily to Linux distributions. Many ISPs have slow DNS servers that cause delays and timeouts when loading web pages.Ĭhange your WiFi Settings to switch to Google’s DNS servers.Įnter the values 8.8.4.4, 8.8.8.8 in the DNS field of the IPv4 tab.Įnter the values 2001:4860:4860::8888, 2001:4860:4860::8844 in the DNS field of the IPv6 tab.ĭisconnect and reconnect to the WiFi connection to see the changes. If you are facing slow network speeds and timeouts on Ubuntu 22.04, then your internet service provider is likely to blame. Reboot and run zramctl in a terminal to check the swap usage.
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