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foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I got downvoted to hell for saying it before, but what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.
Firefox is my go-to today, but I’m watching them closely.
super cool not disgusting abomination of a bug that’s not a bug. Remap my fucking root directory?
I am not convinced that’s what’s going on. It looks more like some weird thing snap does to make hunspell available to snap Firefox.
Have you seen this behavior on your own Ubuntu install? In other words, can you reproduce the described scenario?
Yes. I literally have a cron job to unmount and rename my root directory to / that runs every 12 hours.
And how does that work? How do you unmount the root directory of a live system and invoke a script?
sudo umount /var/snap/Firefox/common/host-hunspell 2>/dev/null Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/null
Like that?
That makes no sense. The bug listed shows the same device mounted to / and that spelling for in /var or whatever. And your system wouldn’t operate if / didn’t exist. I’m almost curious enough to go set up a VM to try to see what’s happening.
My working solution is literally running a Cron .sh which is
Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/null``` If Firefox updates via snap, it will change back to bullshit. Is the case in every 22.04 VM I have on my machine as well. This script effectively gives me "/" back, and unfucks the rest of my machine. It is a reason for me looking to leave Ubuntu after 12 years dedicated. Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it isn't happening.
What stuff? Snap? The official flatpak? The official deb repository?
KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Can you elaborate on the statement? I’m not connecting the dots.
scrooge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Maybe it’s about firefox coming pre-installed in ubuntu, not sure either
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
No, they’re talking about how Ubuntu doesn’t let you uninstall Firefox, and constantly push ads for it down your throat, and how Ubuntu always opens web search results in Firefox regardless of your default browser, and how… Oh wait
stembolts@programming.dev 10 months ago
So you don’t know how to uninstall Firefox on Ubuntu?
Where do these “Ubuntu ads” display in the operating system? Are you talking about the software browser? An application used to get software suggestions is suggesting software? Or something more nefarious?
To me, your post just says, “I haven’t used Linux much,” because I’ve never encountered any of these problems… but I’m always open to being wrong.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The worst part is the bug that overwrites “/” to the Firefox spell check directory… Gross.
See issue here