Firefox snap updates for non-technical users

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 09:04, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 22:18, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> According to this, snaps are supposed to auto-update.  Perhaps snapd
>> is not running for some reason.  Perhaps it has been disabled for
>> example.  https://snapcraft.io/docs/keeping-snaps-up-to-date
>
>
> That looks promising. On R's system, Firefox is running pretty much all the time - which might be deferring the updates till later.
>

I don't think that would stop it updating, I think it would update and
the new one would take effect the next time FF was started.

What does this show?
sudo systemctl status snapd.service

Colin