OS 17: Preferred Repository (Flathub vs Snap)

[Aravisian]

With the release of Zorin OS 17, Mozilla opted to only offer Firefox as a Flatpak from Flathub.

The ZorinGroup contacted the Mozilla devs to work this out and was informed that Mozilla has been working on an APT PPA for Mozilla and Firefox but with an uncertain release date for it and better security and performance for Zorin OS users by adhering to the Mozilla standing flatpak, the ZorinGroup set Firefox as default flatpak in Zorin OS 17.
Waiting for the Mozilla repo would have delayed the release of Zorin OS 17.

Firefox is currently the only non-standard package format in Zorin OS.

In the time since... Mozilla has released the PPA:

Firefox Back to .deb on Ubuntu Based Distros

I hope there will be a binary package like Chrome and Opera installable from the software application in the future. Been using the Firefox ESR ppa since the snap edition was released on some distros. ESR is based on older builds of Firefox and updates less frequently.

[Z17 BETA/UBUNTU 22] How to get the native Firefox instead of flatpak/snap

As of the beta, Zorin 17 provides firefox as a flatpak. For performance and compatibility reasons, I can see that many of us (including myself) would prefer the native version. Sadly, because of a decision from Ubuntu, doing "sudo apt install firefox" brings the snap and not the native package. So after a bit research, trial and error with some different blogs and ubuntu forum posts, I have finally gotten the native firefox to install with apt instead of Ubuntu's snap. The steps are quite easy t…