Trying to remove FireFox

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 09:11, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> on two boxies (21.10 Unity & 21.10 Gnome) that told me firefox was not
> installed, even though the icon was sitting there, so I then went

Yes, it's a snap now.
>
> sudo snap remove firefox
>
> only to get (wording like)
>
> Firefox is in a refresh cycle

I am not very familiar with snaps -- I removed Snap support on my
server, and one of my laptops now runs Mint, so although I re-enabled
it for things like Slack and Spotify, nothing is in a snap by default.

But I'd update everything from the command line in the usual way, then
reboot, then use the GUI updater, get it to upgrade everything it can,
reboot *again*, and _then_ try.

FWIW I have found that I can enable Ubuntuzilla same as ever, and get
current versions from there.

https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/wiki/Main_Page/

But my main browser since 2017 has been Waterfox Classic, because it
still supports classic Firefox addons. I don't like Firefox Quantum
much. The addons are finally catching up now, but they're still
crippled compared to the old ones, and the browser is less
customisable than before. Since I primarily used it because of its
customisability, and only secondarily because it's FOSS not just
freeware, that is very sad.

Apropos of nothing, I wrote about this last week:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork/

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