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I've encountered this exact issue: It kept bugging me to close firefox so that I can update. I closed it. Then I relaunched it and the message popped up again. I repeated this process for a couple of days until I gave up, uninstalled snap, and installed flatpak.

Issues like this are present in a lot of highly-opinionated software; they become utterly unusable when used in a way that deviates from the dev's ideal vision, or ways they plain just refuse to support. Configurability and transparency is almost always a good thing in software. It seems that some Devs will have to relearn this lesson the hard way.




For the record, the solution to this is to run "snap refresh" manually right after you exit Firefox.




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