That’s medium-categorized. I’m by far not an expert but this one (or rather the whole background-update issue, maybe?) is a damn critical bug since your TB or FF will crash during your work.
Just today I lend a recently jammy-upgraded laptop to a colleague because he needed to use FF. Gmail and so on and… “hey Francois, it crashed”. Well, that’s no good for Ubuntu or Linux image…
I’ve been a fan of Snaps, however the FireFox snap has been crashing on me 5+ times a week since I’ve installed it with 21.10 in October. It has also completely broken 4 times where even a purge uninstall then reinstall wouldn’t fix it. It would not connect to the internet at all and would fill up 10GB of space on my disk.
No not manually, I had thought this was default behavior already.
Regardless it looks like it doesn’t work correctly yet according the the bug linked above.
As a side question, why does FF snap in Jammy have two icons? One seems to be for the actual snap package, the other for some deb remainder. To remove both you would have to apt remove FF && snap remove FF.
sounds like a bug … the deb is needed for upgrading from former versions but it should really just install the snap, seems there is still a .desktop file in it …
yes, you should, but i dont exactly know if ubuntu-bug firefox will work for this to file it against the deb on launchpad, @oSoMoN should be able to tell us
Good catch! This is indeed a bug, which I just fixed.
The desktop file in the deb is intended for compatibility with existing installations where it might be favourited in the dock. But it shouldn’t be visible in the activities, indeed.
I wonder if this issue is related?; it was noted in Lubuntu, Ubuntu-MATE originally (it’s no longer impacted) & Ubuntu Desktop using the canary ISO. You may have fixed it at the same time?? or at least you maybe able to tell me the likely package the bug should be filed on.
That’s probably a slightly different issue, where indeed the deb and the snap (both providing the browser) where installed at the same time. With the deb now a transitional package that installs the snap, this shouldn’t happen any longer.