The Ubuntu family, which is currently in the main release and seven official flavors, will grow in the future. Who seems to be closer to achieving it is Ubuntu Cinnamon, but Ubuntu Unity, UbuntuDDE and a version that wants to stand up to Chrome OS also intend to enter: Free Web. Its developers are the same as those behind Ubuntu Unity, and the intention is that the operating system is based on Firefox, something that they have considered changing this month.
As we can read in the project Twitter account, the problem is how Firefox manages applications. Unlike Chromium-based browsers, Firefox does not open applications in their own windows, so the SSB experience, which is very experimental in Firefox, leaves much to be desired. After conducting a survey, in which they proposed to switch to using the Brave browser or continuing with Firefox, the community chose to continue with the Mozilla browser, so the Ubuntu Web developers had to make another decision.
Ubuntu Web will continue to be based on Firefox, with the help of "Snow"
Hi everyone, since we've decided to go with @firefox, I've created 'Snow'?, A solution that tries to provide SSB experience in @firefox. It works much like Peppermint Ice, but also fixes issues we see with Ice in @firefox. It also adds more features specific to Ubuntu Web.
- Ubuntu Web Remix (@ubunweb) November 24, 2020
Hello everyone. Since we have decided to stick with Firefox, we have created "Snow" 😉 a solution that attempts to provide an SSB experience in Firefox. It works more or less like Peppermint Ice, but it also fixes bugs we see with Ice in Firefox. It also adds more specific functions to Ubuntu Web.
The decision they have made is the one we see in the previous tweet: have created a tool called «Snow», which basically creates Firefox webapps that will each work in your window. This, which will be available in the next image, will be discontinued when the Firefox SSB experience improves. If you want to try the native system of the browser right now, you can do it by following this tutorial.
Ubuntu Web, whose development will always be behind Ubuntu Unity, aims to be a FOSS alternative to Chrome OS, and can be installed on virtually any computer.