It’s now broadly recognized that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) ships Firefox as a snap, however some folks (like me) could favor putting in it from .deb packages to retain management over upgrades or to maintain extensions working.
Fortunately there may be nonetheless a PPA serving firefox (and thunderbird) debs at https://launchpad.web/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa maintained by the Mozilla Staff. (Thanks!)
You may block the Ubuntu archive’s model that simply pulls within the snap by pinning it:
$ cat /and so forth/apt/preferences.d/firefox-no-snap
Bundle: firefox*
Pin: launch o=Ubuntu*
Pin-Precedence: -1
Now you may take away the transitional bundle and the Firefox snap itself:
sudo apt purge firefox
sudo snap take away firefox
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo apt replace
sudo apt set up firefox
For the reason that bundle comes from a PPA unattended-upgrades won’t improve it routinely, until you allow this origin:
echo 'Unattended-Improve::Allowed-Origins:: "LP-PPA-mozillateam:${distro_codename}";' | sudo tee /and so forth/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox
Completely happy searching!
Replace: I’ve discovered a couple of different, related guides at https://fostips.com/ubuntu-21-10-two-firefox-remove-snap and https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/install-firefox-deb-ubuntu-22-04 and I’ve up to date the pinning configuration primarily based on them.
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