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> With snap, Firefox is not updated until you close Firefox and run `snap refresh`. Worse, they display a misleading pop-up notification telling you Firefox ne
by bogwog 4y ago
> With snap, Firefox is not updated until you close Firefox and run `snap refresh`.
Worse, they display a misleading pop-up notification telling you Firefox needs to be closed within X days to update. However, closing Firefox doesn't update it, and it doesn't actually tell you how to begin the update or when it will happen automatically. After searching the internet, it turns out you need to open a terminal and run a command to update it manually.
It doesn't seem like Canonical has any kind of UX team, or if they do then they're asleep at the wheel.
- yaddaor 4y agoThat popup is so incredibly bad. It alone means that I will need to install a different distro for my parents. How it got through quality control is utterly baffling to me.
- mort96 4y agoHuh, so that's what's going on. I have encountered the pop-up, and in response, closed and re-opened Firefox. I 100% expected that to update Firefox. I suppose it was always a bit weird, since I shut my desktop down at night so there's never more than a day since Firefox was last restarted.
- compsciphd 4y agothe popup doesn't even make sense, there's no reason the image can't be updated behind the scenes and just take effect next time firefox is launched. just because a snap is in use, doesn't mean it shouldn't be able to be updated (i.e. can docker pull an update image without breaking my existent running containers).