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by morsch 885 days ago
PSA if you want to upgrade to these from snap (and I would encourage you to do so), do your research:

Ubuntu likes to replace installed debs with snaps without consulting the user and you need to configure it not to do so.

And the profile folder for the snap is in a different place than for the deb, so make a copy of it etc.

I'm not going into full detail as these things are easily found via Google as long as you're aware of them.
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vanni 884 days ago
It's documented: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w...
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EasyMark 885 days ago
If you uninstall the snap, it's not going to overwrite your firefox installed from this deb. Never had it do anything like that unless you are upgrading to a major new release and then it disables ppas, so I suppose it might happen at that point, but most people don't do major upgrades that often, if you do then it's on you to keep track of them because that's just the way that Ubuntu handles it
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morsch 884 days ago
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-d...

Step 5: Set the Firefox package priority to ensure Mozilla’s Deb version is always preferred. If you don’t do this the Ubuntu transition package could replace it, reinstalling the Firefox Snap:

This happened to me and it wasn't as part of a dist upgrade.

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