[cgriswald]

> i.e. try to do a snap refresh while firefox is running, nothing to update, because its running, quit it wait for all processes to die and then refresh, and it will update and cause you to wait 30-60s while it does it, and then you can restart firefox.

Oh, it's worse than that. When there is an update available but firefox is running you get:

> % snap refresh

> All snaps up to date.

It doesn't even tell you there is an update and that you need to close firefox to get it. In fact, it tells you there isn't one.

[AaronFriel]

This seems broken, full stop.

Can Firefox itself, when installed via Snap, notify the user that it needs security updates? If so, can users effectively do that, or do they have to know this incantation of closing, waiting, running a terminal command, and restarting?

[rbanffy]

That’s a step backwards. The whole point of package managers is that the system manages software updates and the software itself can be completely oblivious to that.

Snap done properly it’d download and install the new version, point launchers to that and prompt the user to restart running snaps.

[a_t48]

This is what Slack does.