Trying to remove FireFox

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:09:47 -0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi All
> 
> Maybe a senior thing but
> 
> I always (since it was possible) do the minimal install and choose what I do 
> want later
> 
> I'm going mad "trying" to remove FireFox, normally (at least upto 18.04) I just
> 
> Sudo apt remove --purge firefox -y
> 
> and all is well
> 
> 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 

The presense of the *icon* actually means nothing.  What happens when you 
click on the icon?  Does firefox start up?  Does chrome or chromium start up? 
Does something else start (some other browser)?  Does a "file (program) not 
found" error pop up?

> 
> sudo snap remove firefox
> 
> only to get (wording like)
> 
> Firefox is in a refresh cycle
> 
> so I left it a few hours and tried again, and again another few hours same 
> result, so I tried holding refresh 2 days but that failed so I went nuke with
> 
> sudo snap set system refresh.hold=2022-01-01T12:30:00+00:00
> 
> (so over lunch New Years Day)
> 
> and tried again with same results
> 
> How do I do this, can snap apps (that came with dist) be removed ??
> 
> I've done search after search and AFAICT I've followed the instructions (albeit 
> to extream)
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> 
> 

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