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$ sudo snap refresh firefox firefox 126.0-2 from Mozilla refreshed I'm not always happy about the snap mechanism, but this time I'm glad about a quick re

• cwillu 2y ago
  How is that any different from any other package manager? The sandboxing features of snaps have no major role in how easy it is for a publisher to update a package in one of their repositories.
• planede 2y ago
  Right. But you also get a recent one if you just use the Mozilla PPA, without snap. Debian sid also ships 126, and I assume the fix should be backported to Firefox LTS, which is used by stable. I don't see the relevance of snap here.
• tgsovlerkhgsel 2y ago
  If you had to manually refresh it and were on a vulnerable version until now, snap failed to get you into a secure state for about a week after the release of the fixed version.