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by arzig 883 days ago
The Firefox deb in the repos redirected and did a snap install or some weirdness at least at some point.
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Flatpaks are a perfectly functional option https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox
Must have been an Ubuntu problem.

I install Firefox via Debian's package, and have never had 'snapd' installed.

Yes. Ubuntu maintained their own deb package that redirected to a snap install.