1326127 - Make Firefox a Snap format download option

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1251407

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161213225041

Steps to reproduce:

I read the Vice President of Product for Firefox blog in, "Firefox is the default browser for Linux users on Ubuntu, new snap format coming soon" from April 21 2016. He said Firefox would be available in the Snap package format later this year. With this year almost up, and no Snap package in sight, I'm needing to ask on the status of that endeavor? Snap (and Flatpak) would sandbox Firefox (there's already a bug I voted for that asks for Firefox to be in the Flatpak format too). So it's a very important security feature if Firefox was available as Snap (or Flatpak) package. Plus Snap (and Flatpak) packages run on any operating system or distro! So the Firefox developers would save a lot of work by switching to Snap (or Flatpak). For more info on Snap visit snapcraft.io (or more info on Flatpak visit flatpak.org). What's the status of making Firefox a Snap?


Actual results:

Firefox did not become available as a Snap package despite Mozilla blogging that it would already.


Expected results:

Firefox should have switched to Snap by now or another blog post should have been made addressing the status of the endeavor, such as whether and why it is not longer being pursued.