| dragon_ | Is there a way to stop the firefox update prompts | 00:35 |
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| dragon_ | I get them all the time, every few minutes | 00:35 |
| teward | every few *minutes*? What update prompts are you seeing? how is Firefox installed? | 00:36 |
| teward | if you are talking about the snap update thing, then close all firefox windows, run `sudo snap refresh` on the command line, and then reopen Firefox when that's done, and the notices go away | 00:36 |
| dragon_ | Firefox is default in lubuntu, and the updates are through update manager (apply full upgrade under preferances) | 00:37 |
| teward | which Lubuntu version? | 00:37 |
| dragon_ | FF is my prefered browser, | 00:37 |
| dragon_ | 22.10 | 00:37 |
| teward | in 22.10, Firefox is installed through snap by default, did you install Firefox through a PPA or some other mechanism? | 00:38 |
| teward | (therefore my statement about snap updates applies) | 00:38 |
| dragon_ | not sure about the mintues, but several times a day. It seems like I close the tiny warning window and before too long it is there again. | 00:38 |
| teward | dragon_: close all firefox windows. open the terminal. run `sudo snap refresh`. it'll ask for your password, enter it (it won't show anything though). Press enter, let the update process run. then reopen Firefox | 00:39 |
| teward | it should make those messages disappear. | 00:39 |
| dragon_ | No, I have kept the original, and the pop up window is a snap thing | 00:39 |
| teward | since 22.04, all Ubuntu flavors - Lubuntu included - are forced to use Firefox as a snap by default, and it does have a slightly more annoying update process now as `snapd` under the hood can't update Firefox while it's used. | 00:39 |
| teward | dragon_: so, follow the steps I just said to run? | 00:40 |
| dragon_ | all snaps up to date | 00:40 |
| arraybolt3 | Then you didn't close the Firefox window first. | 00:40 |
| arraybolt3 | (Most likely.) | 00:40 |
| teward | ^^ | 00:40 |
| teward | **ALL** firefox windows everywhere must be closed. | 00:41 |
| teward | `sudo killall firefox` on the command line will do that | 00:41 |
| dragon_ | haha, I got, "pending update of firefox snap" Close the app to avoid disruptions (11 days left) | 00:41 |
| teward | dragon_: you didn't close firefox then. `sudo killall firefox` then run `sudo snap refresh` | 00:41 |
| teward | then when it completes and says all up to date then reopen Firefox and it should stop complaining. at least until the next Firefox snap update | 00:41 |
| dragon_ | you were right, a ff window was left open | 00:43 |
| teward | yep. dragon_ in the future it's the same process - close ALL firefox windows, run `sudo killall firefox` to make sure, then `sudo snap refresh` | 00:44 |
| teward | whenever you start getting those prompts it's because Firefox can't update while running :) | 00:44 |
| dragon_ | I have never done the snap refresh | 00:45 |
| dragon_ | just ran the basic upgrade manager | 00:45 |
| teward | yeah unfortunately snaps can be a pain | 00:45 |
| teward | Update Manager doesn't always catch the snaps | 00:45 |
| arraybolt3 | I think our usual "Apply Full Upgrade" thingy doesn't handle Snap updates. | 00:45 |
| teward | and *can't* determine if you're running Firefox still or not. | 00:45 |
| dragon_ | I just need to be aware of it | 00:45 |
| teward | it may queue the snap update at the very least, but `snapd` under the hood handles it | 00:45 |
| teward | yep! | 00:45 |
| dragon_ | Thanks for the help, I have wondered about that one for some time | 00:46 |
| lubot | [telegram] <teward001> yeah, it's one of the things that became a concern in the 22.04 devel cycle for everyone, and not a new thing I've seen as people see the issues and complain (myself included, but i'm a developer and power user so) | 00:47 |
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