[Bug 1988631] [NEW] Firefox snap update doesn't work and popup is very annoying

[Chris]

Public bug reported:

Each time snap thinks that firefox should be updated (-> so this happens
quite often) a popup message appears and stays above all other windows
all the time to remind me to close firefox. It also gives me a couple of
days that are granted to me to do that.

I can close this popup - but after a shot time it comes up again.

This popup is very annoying and distracts me from the work that I'm just
doing.

Every day in the evening I shut down my computer completely, so firefox is also closed. In the morning I start it up and firefox gets automatically started again (as intended by me).
But it seems that snap is not capable to handle a shutdown and restart to do its work. It just prefers to annoy me in multiple ways instead: it takes away my authority over my system and my decision when I'm prepared to do an update or not. It doesn't give me a choice to skip a specific version when I don't want to use it. It tries to put me under pressure to do the update like a bad sales agent (only ... days left).
All of this was perfectly solved when firefox was a normal APT package.

The system I'm running is Kubuntu, based on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Firefox is 104.0.1 - but it happend already with older versions of it as well

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Firefox snap update doesn't work and popup is very annoying

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