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Anonymous

With Ubuntu now shipping Firefox Snap as the default, would you consider releasing an updated article on the security and privacy of Snap vs Flatpak versions?

Briain

Using LM 21.1, I tried flatpak Firefox and it worked very well, but the downside was that I couldn't resolve LAN DNS (I believe this is down to the sand-boxing) so I tried the snap Firefox and that seems to work equally and in addition, I can now access LAN DNS. I'd tend to go with the flatpak version as I really do love security, but I use LAN DNS to access local devices several times per day and it was just too much of a hassle to lose it, so I'll stick with the snap variant. :-)

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