I recently upgraded to 21.10, where in the process, snap was reinstalled and firefox was reinstalled as a snap. I did however just purge snap as I've done many

I recently upgraded to 21.10, where in the process, snap was reinstalled and firefox was reinstalled as a snap. I did however just purge snap as I've done many times before, without any issue. Then installed firefox through flatpak, which is as of writing version 98.0.2, which looks to be the same as you get through snap. So, in conclusion, it shouldn't matter one bit how canonical decides to distribute firefox, if you can just use the debian based apt, or flatpak. I hope canonical goes away from the snap model, because I've had nothing but issues with it, until I got fed up enough to remove it, and then everything was great again. Issues were mostly related to read-only mounted file system, and otherwise the mess it produces. However, even if I had experienced none of those, the whole automatic updates whether-you-like-it-or-not... is one of the reasons why I'm not using windows or macOS.