[Bug 1988665] [NEW] snap install of firefox is a bad idea on heterogeneous networks

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We run a network of linux computers mixing a variety of flavours of
ubuntu and other distros - for many reasons they can't all run the same
system and they can't all be updated simultaneously.

The switch for snap for firefox is a real PITA because the profile is
stored elsewhere.  So we have people losing their profiles, people
ending up with unsynchronised profiles, and a whole lot of annoyance.
It looks like snapping a key component such as this hasn't really been
thought through beyond the single user / single computer point of view.

So the snap of firefox should be reverted back to deb (or an update
option with an easy alternative fix offered) and any further conversions
of packages to snaps should be consider the heterogeneous network
environment (with fixes) before proceeding.

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

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snap install of firefox is  a bad idea on heterogeneous networks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1988665
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