Topic: Snaps

Hardware Accelerated Chromium Snap Ready to Test

If you run Ubuntu on a laptop or PC with 7th-generation Intel chips or later and you’re a fan of the Chromium browser, it’s your lucky day! Canonical has partnered with Intel to make a […]

9 May 2023

Fix Slow Ubuntu Shutdown Due to Stop Job Running for Snap Daemon

Sometimes I shutdown Ubuntu and …it takes ages to actually power off. Am I alone? Am I unreasonable? I’m not sure, but I am highly caffeinated — massive props to all the wonderful folks who […]

28 March 2023

Ubuntu Wants You to Test its Steam Snap

Remember when Ubuntu said it was getting serious about gaming? Well, it hasn’t forgotten entirely — it’s once again asking gamers to take part in a fresh bout of testing for its Steam snap. Steam […]

18 March 2023

Ubuntu 23.04 Makes Telegram a Deb-to-Snap Transitional Package

Telegram asked Ubuntu to transition users of its deb app to the officially-maintained Snap. The package is present in Lunar and may come to stable builds.

25 January 2023
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Native Messaging Support Arrives in Stable Version of Firefox Snap

Yes, you can finally install GNOME extensions using the Firefox Snap on Ubuntu, without having to do anything fancy like switching Snap channel. Phew!

7 November 2022
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Ubuntu Devs Finally Fix Frustrating Firefox Snap Flaw

Ubuntu's Firefox Snap package is tackling a longstanding criticism in the beta channels, namely the lack of native messaging support, vital for add-ons.

27 July 2022
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‘Significant Improvements’ Made to Ubuntu Firefox Snap

Canonical has often talked about how it has improved the startup time of Snap apps yet, for many of us, the improvements remained theoretical.

10 July 2022
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Steam is Now on the Snap Store, And You Can Help Test It

Steam is available as a Snap app. Ubuntu developers announced the news at LAS, and are inviting Ubuntu gamers to try it out, test it, and provide feedback.

29 April 2022
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Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak

Ubuntu's founder pours cold water on the question of Ubuntu desktop supporting Flatpak, the fast-growing and popular open source packaging format.

22 April 2022

Use Snaps? You’ll Dig This Nifty GNOME Extension

Speed up your Snap management workflow with this handy applet stuffed with shortcuts. It even lets you pause Snap updates for a specific period.

9 March 2022
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Canonical Outlines the ‘Future of Snapcraft’

Canonical is making changes to the system used for creating Snap apps, outlining its plans in a blog titled 'The Future of Snapcraft'. More details inside.

7 January 2022
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Hot Topic: Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10

Ubuntu 21.10 is making the Firefox Snap app its default browser. A feature-freeze exception requests the Firefox Snap be seeded in the Ubuntu ISO image.

16 September 2021