Canonical has announced that the popular Chromium and Firefox web browsers are now available for installation via snaps on Ubuntu and other compatible systems.
El universal application packaging system (known as SNAP for its acronym in English) is becoming more popular, and the plans of the company behind Ubuntu are to make it the default installation system and even add it from scratch in future releases.
One of the best features about Snap applications is that they are secure by design, using a container to deploy the software on various Linux distributions that support Canonical's Snaps binary format.
Snaps are also good for always having up-to-date applications, although now Canonical's main job is to convince more developers to port their applications on Snap for Ubuntu and other distributions.
Chromium and Firefox already available as Snaps for Ubuntu, here we tell you how to install it
The latest applications ported to Snap are the two web browsers Chromium and Mozilla Firefox that can now be installed on Ubuntu and other Snaps-compatible distributions.
Both browsers can be installed through Snaps in compatible Linux distributions, among which we can mention Arch Linux, Solus, Linux Mint, OpenSuse, Debian, and Gentoo. So, if you want to install Chromium and / or Firefox, you will only have to use one line of code:
snap install chrome
snap install firefox
Once the apps are installed like Snap you won't have to worry about updating, they will always be updated to their latest version as soon as the developers make it available. Of course, if you have Ubuntu it doesn't make much sense to install Firefox as Snap because it is the default browser and it always updates automatically when there is a new version.
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web? ️?
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- Ubuntu (@ubuntu) March 14th 2018
And why keep the system?