pending update of "firefox" snap Close the app to avoid disruptions
Recently appears this warning when open FireFox:
pending update of "firefox" snap Close the app to avoid disruptions
What does it mean? and what I have to do?
Is this a bug?
12 Answers
As soon as you see the Pending update of "firefox" snap. Close the app to avoid disruptions (13 days left) notification (which means you have 13 days to upgrade Firefox yourself or else the Firefox snap package will get an unattended upgrade) close Firefox and then reopen it after updating the Firefox snap package is finished. If the pending update to the Firefox snap package has not started yet, it can be initiated by running sudo snap refresh. If you don't close Firefox after Firefox has finished being updated, then you will be unable to open any new tabs until you close Firefox and then reopen it.
The above only works if you actually close firefox, otherwise the snap will not refresh, and running snap refresh will not even tell that it held an update back.
The formula that worked for me:
killall firefox;
sudo snap refresh;But the user experience sucks. It was far more slick using apt, and starting firefox on older machines seems quite a lot slower too.
