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    Snap... (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    I'd rather be able to use my web browser uninterrupted without it being updated while using it and be forced to restart it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    The updates download in the background and will install when you exit the snapped app. If you really don't want automatic updates, you can run snap refresh --hold to hold all automatic updates or add a snap name to hold updates for that snap.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    Nope. There have been multiple times where I have my browser open, in the middle of something and when I go to open a new tab/window I get a blank screen telling me I need to restart FF to continue.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    That is the behaviour that's built for when an upgrade through a "classic" package manager (e.g. apt, dnf) updates Firefox while it's still running. The only way I can think of that you'd get that with a snap is if you're intentionally bypassing the confinement (e.g. by running /snap/firefox/current/usr/lib/firefox/firefox directly, which can also massively mess with other things since Firefox won't be running in the core22 environment it expects).

    If you're using the snap as expected (e.g. opening the .desktop file in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/, running /snap/bin/firefox or running snap run firefox), snapd won't replace /snap/firefox/current until you no longer have any processes from that snap running. Instead you'll get a desktop notification to close and restart Firefox to update it, and two weeks to either do so or to run snap refresh --hold firefox to prevent the update (or something like snap refresh --hold=6w firefox to hold the refresh for 6 weeks). Depending on what graphical updater you have, you may also have the ability to hold the update through that updater.

    Are you sure you're running the Firefox snap? Because that sounds pretty much precisely like the expected behaviour if someone had gone to lengths to avoid using the snap.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

    I'm 99.999% sure it was, as it was within kubuntu using the default FF install (Canonical only provides the snapped version), and opened from either the taskbar icon or through its menu. Discover's auto-update feature was also manually turned off. (was a system at work, so I wanted the config to be relatively basic but controllable)

    I did at some point completely remove snap and switched to flatpak. Eventually though, I went with the Mozilla Team's PPA, as the sandboxing was adding too many complications with the addons along with printing documents.