Error updating Firefox

[Keith]

On 11/19/25 12:04 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can currently still use Firefox.
> 
> ian at turing:~$ snap changes
> ID   Status  Spawn               Ready               Summary
> 762  Done    today at 17:50 GMT  today at 17:50 GMT  Pre-download 
> "firefox" for auto-refresh
> 763  Error   today at 17:54 GMT  today at 17:54 GMT  Auto-refresh snap 
> "firefox"
> 
> When asked to quit Firefox to perform the update, I did so and didn't 
> get a message to reopen Firefox. So I did the abovementioned snap 
> changes and saw that the update seems to have failed.
> 
> I am running it on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64.
> 
> This is what snap info yields:
> ian at turing:~$ snap info firefox
> name:      firefox
> summary:   Mozilla Firefox web browser
> publisher: Mozilla✓
> store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox <https://snapcraft.io/firefox>
> contact: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature- 
> request-mozilla <https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or- 
> feature-request-mozilla>
> license:   unset
> description: |
>    Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern 
> web application
>    technologies.
> commands:
>    - firefox
>    - firefox.geckodriver
> snap-id:      3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk
> tracking:     latest/stable
> refresh-date: today at 17:54 GMT
> channels:
>    latest/stable:    145.0.1-1    2025-11-19 (7355) 262MB -
>    latest/candidate: 145.0.1-1    2025-11-18 (7366) 262MB -
>    latest/beta:      146.0b4-1    2025-11-19 (7377) 264MB -
>    latest/edge:      147.0a1      2025-11-19 (7371) 299MB -
>    esr/stable:       140.5.0esr-2 2025-11-11 (7279) 258MB -
>    esr/candidate:    140.5.0esr-2 2025-11-07 (7279) 258MB -
>    esr/beta:         ↑
>    esr/edge:         ↑
> installed:          145.0.1-1               (7355) 262MB -
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 

$ snap tasks --last=auto-refresh

will give information on individual tasks taken by snapd when performing 
an action like auto-refresh.

$ snap tasks 763
will give information on an individual change ID. In this case it's 763 
for the auto-refresh of the Firefox snap.

-- 
Keith