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Now try saving something from Firefox.

By default, it shoves it into some parallel file system within the snap.

Oh did you forget to actually explicitly save it into the downloads directory? Yeah, you have no idea where it is now.

Oh and of course when the download file explorer widget opens up, you can't get the mouse focus. Probably because there's some security boundary between Firefox and the file system.

Usability of firefoxes vastly decreased as a result of snaps

Finally, well this isn't a big deal to me. Apparently a lot of the open source people don't like it because the Firefox nap is basically just a call. The internet pull down binary command that pulls a huge binary blob and they don't like this.




Weird. I use the Firefox snap (due to my lazy inertia), and my saves/downloads are all in $HOME/Downloads

I don't think I did anything to change that either.


Yes! Downloading things in Firefox has been annoying too now that you mention it.


I know what you meant but generally really unfair to even mention or phrase it like that. “Downloading things in snap” is more correct.

Snap has done such a disservice to open source software’s perceived quality.


Ok.




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