Many updates to Firefox on snap

[Walt Mankowski]

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:26:50AM -0400, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Walt Mankowski wrote:
> 
> >I'm running 22.04. I just noticed my Dock acting a little odd.
> 
> What was odd about yours?
> 
> I'm running Kubuntu 22.04 and my Firefox icon vanished from my panel
> yesterday, but the empty spot on the panel was clickable and would
> open Firefox. The icon wasn't in the list of icons when I went
> browsing for it to put it back, so I deleted the shortcut and added
> it again from the menu and all was well. I found that to be rather
> odd.

That's pretty much what I saw too. I noticed the icons rearranging
themselves. Firefox briefly disappeared, but then came back.

> >I thought it might be Firefox updating via snap, so I checked, and
> >sure enough that's what it was:
> >
> >% snap changes
> >ID    Status  Spawn                   Ready                   Summary
> >1076  Done    yesterday at 12:05 EDT  yesterday at 12:05 EDT
> >Auto-refresh snap "firefox" 1077  Done    yesterday at 20:45 EDT
> >yesterday at 20:45 EDT  Auto-refresh snap "firefox" 1078  Done
> >today at 03:25 EDT      today at 03:25 EDT      Auto-refresh snap
> >"firefox" 1079  Done    today at 10:55 EDT      today at 10:56 EDT
> >   Auto-refresh snap "firefox"
> 
> I had only two changes during the same time period. I'm not sure why
> we're not getting the same updates:
> 
> ID   Status  Spawn                   Ready                   Summary
> 10   Done    yesterday at 15:43 EDT  yesterday at 15:43 EDT  Auto-refresh snap "firefox"
> 11   Done    today at 06:26 EDT      today at 06:26 EDT      Auto-refresh snap "firefox"

Oddly the snap directory for firefox updated at 06:21, which doesn't
match the times `snap changes` reported. That's what got me to
wondering if maybe something internal had updated.

% ls -l /snap/firefox 
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 201 May 15 16:33 1351/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 201 May 20 06:21 1377/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   4 May 20 10:55 current -> 1377/