Muon Firefox Lock?

[GregM]

I guess the Muon lock that I have doesn't lock Firefox Snap?
Is there a way to fix this so it does lock updates to Firefox Snap?

[oshunluvr]

Muon hasn't been maintained for more than 5 years. You probably shouldn't be using it.

You can lock a package with dpkg or apt, maybe even Discover

[claydoh]

Muon hasn't been maintained for more than 5 years. You probably shouldn't be using it.

You can lock a package with dpkg or apt, maybe even Discover

GregM is having FF update automatically, as it is a Snap, so pinning/locking the deb file won't have any effect.

I guess the Muon lock that I have doesn't lock Firefox Snap?
Is there a way to fix this so it does lock updates to Firefox Snap?

Snaps are a completely different packaging format from Debian/Ubuntu's debs. Muon/apt pinning or locking won't have an effect on that, unfortunately.
The deb package for Firefox is simply a dummy that points to installing the Snap, which will update itself.

GregM is a good candidate for de-Snapping and migrating to a deb version via PPA AND switching to firefox-esr, which won't see updates as often, and is based on an older release . This should slow the UI changes gregM seem to fight with regularly.
firefox-esr is at 102.x, and will stay there for a while, with regular security fixes as opposed to feature and UI upgrades..

It is entirely possible to hold a snap, though I don't know if there is a way to go back to older versions.
Oops, yes, there is, if there are any available.

To hold a snap:
snap refresh --hold firefox

[Schwarzer Kater]

I am by no means an expert on Snap (I try to avoid it) - but I don't think there is any graphical way to lock a Snap package (yet?)…

I also think neither dpkg nor apt will be able to do this as this has to be a Snap specific command like snap refresh --hold … - and your version of snapd seems to have to be at least 2.58.

See: https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-sn...#heading--hold

PS: But I would not hold updates for a web browser anyway - this is one of the programs getting the most frequent security fixes!

[GregM]

So if I use my terminal and use
snap refresh --hold firefox
It will stop the Firefox Snap updates? Or am I misunderstanding this?

[Schwarzer Kater]

[…]
GregM is a good candidate for de-Snapping and migrating to a deb version via PPA AND switching to firefox-esr, which won't see updates as often, and is based on an older release . This should slow the UI changes gregM seem to fight with regularly.
firefox-esr is at 102.x, and will stay there for a while, with regular security fixes as opposed to feature and UI upgrades..
[…]

I have not tried the Firefox ESR binary from the Mozilla Team PPA yet, but it could be possible that one has to deinstall Ubuntu's "dummy" Firefox packages with sudo pkcon remove --autoremove firefox (additionally to removing the Firefox Snap if one wishes to do so) before adding the Mozilla Team PPA. Just do it to be sure!
Otherwise one could get both Firefox and Firefox ESR from the Mozilla Team PPA at the same time… (not good if one wanted Firefox ESR only).

Possibly I will add the Firefox ESR binary to my scripts in the future.

[claydoh]

So if I use my terminal and use
snap refresh --hold firefox
It will stop the Firefox Snap updates? Or am I misunderstanding this?

yes. it will hold it at the currewnt version.
My other link also describes how to list and use older versions of a snap (if that is better for your UI customizations), if any are available. Which you can then hold.

[GregM]

reg@greg-OptiPlex:~$ snap refresh --hold firefox
General refreshes of "firefox" held indefinitely
greg@greg-OptiPlex:~$

Thank you