I gave it a try and things didn’t go so well. Basically after 25 minutes I gave up. Here is what I did just so we are all in sync. First a shutdown and reboot. Firefox deb is still installed. Here are the snaps installed at the start of this;
paul@p6t:~$ snap list Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base bashtop 0.9.25 350 latest/stable kz6fittycent - canonical-livepatch 9.8.0 114 latest/stable canonical✓ - chromium 95.0.4638.54 1801 latest/stable canonical✓ - code 6cba118a 78 latest/stable vscode✓ classic core 16-2.52.1 11993 latest/stable canonical✓ core core18 20210722 2128 latest/stable canonical✓ base core20 20210928 1169 latest/stable canonical✓ base glimpse-editor 0.2.0 204 latest/stable trechnex - gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 161 latest/stable canonical✓ - gnome-3-34-1804 0+git.3556cb3 72 latest/stable/… canonical✓ - gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.6ba6040 76 latest/stable canonical✓ - gnome-system-monitor 40.1-2-ga819fb4b55 163 latest/stable canonical✓ - gtk-common-themes 0.1-59-g7bca6ae 1519 latest/stable/… canonical✓ - gtk2-common-themes 0.1 13 latest/stable canonical✓ - inkscape 1.1.1-eb90963e84-2021-10-02 9256 latest/stable inkscape✓ - kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20 5.85.0 5 latest/stable kde✓ - kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-core20 5.79.0 14 latest/stable kde✓ - kmahjongg 0.9.21080 57 latest/candidate kde✓ - rpi-imager 1.6.2 184 latest/stable popey - snap-store 3.38.0-66-gbd5b8f7 557 latest/stable/… canonical✓ - snapd 2.52.1 13640 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd solitaire 1.1 5 latest/stable 1bsyl - sublime-text 4113 109 latest/stable snapcrafters classic whatsapp-for-linux 1.3.0 27 latest/stable nshecan -
Checking to see if firefox is running:
paul@p6t:~$ ps -ef | grep firefox paul 8822 7007 0 21:11 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox
verifying that the firefox snap isn’t installed
paul@p6t:~$ snap run firefox -version error: cannot find current revision for snap firefox: readlink /snap/firefox/current: no such file or directory
Installing the firefox snap
paul@p6t:~$ snap install firefox firefox 93.0-1 from Mozilla✓ installed
Trying to verify the firefox snap version
> paul@p6t:~$ snap run firefox -version
> Importing existing firefox profiles from /home/paul/.mozilla/firefox
After 25 minutes I checked in on HTOP to see if it was still running;
I closed the terminal and opened a new one
paul@p6t:~$ snap run firefox -version Mozilla Firefox 93.0
Looks promising;
paul@p6t:~$ snap run firefox Gtk-Message: 21:33:15.199: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 21:33:15.221: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" [GFX1-]: glxtest: libEGL missing [GFX1-]: glxtest: libEGL missing ###!!! [Child][RunMessage] Error: Channel closing: too late to send/recv, messages will be lost