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cipricus
Asked: 2023-12-01 18:18:56 +0800 CST

Firefox snap stays version 99 in Kubuntu 22.04

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On a secondary laptop I am running LTS Kubuntu 22.04 and the default Firefox snap - while for various reasons I don't use Firefox snap on my first laptop, the main one being that I can manage more easily Plasma integration of a non-snap Firefox version. But I'm ready to learn and I want to test if there's any truth in many people's dismissing of Ubuntu's (especially Firefox's) snap push.

And it started badly. The system is newly installed, updated and restarted, but what I have here is version 99 - from before the whole new-addons button! Even ESR is 115.

Normally Firefox should update itself.

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sudo snap refresh

All snaps up to date.

firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 99.0.1


snap info firefox
name:      firefox
summary:   Mozilla Firefox web browser
publisher: Mozilla✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox
license:   unset
description: |
  Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web
  application technologies.
commands:
  - firefox
snap-id:      3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk
tracking:     latest/stable/ubuntu-22.04
refresh-date: 58 days ago, at 18:18 CEST
channels:
  latest/stable:    120.0.1-1    2023-11-30 (3504) 254MB -
  latest/candidate: 120.0.1-1    2023-11-29 (3504) 254MB -
  latest/beta:      121.0b5-1    2023-11-29 (3501) 258MB -
  latest/edge:      122.0a1      2023-11-29 (3494) 290MB -
  esr/stable:       115.5.0esr-1 2023-11-21 (3392) 253MB -
  esr/candidate:    115.5.0esr-1 2023-11-14 (3392) 253MB -
  esr/beta:         ↑                                    
  esr/edge:         ↑                                    
installed:          99.0.1-1                (1232) 163MB -
updates

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    sudo snap remove firefox
snap install --stable firefox

    Removing Firefox and installing it back made me lose my profile settings and had to resync and recustomize, but latest 120 version was installed.

    I hope I don't have to do it manually next time, or it's https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/linux/, which I'm sure gets updated by itself.

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