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Snap for me means Firefox suddenly says “I won’t open a new tab until you update me and I will drop all tabs on restart”. It also means cached content and configs in many new obscure places. It doesn’t mean any visible improvement so far. So hey, kudos Mint and hey, Ubuntu stop that already.

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Uh yeah, that's just Firefox in general, from a snap or a deb.

For a .deb you need to have chosen to run an update first

No, ubuntu includes it in unattended-upgrades for security reasons, and will still upgrade it without manually triggering the update.

It doesn't auto-restore my session either, but I can usually (always?) get it back using the "Restore previous session" item from the menu. (Also, like the siblings say, that's not a snap thing. If I understand it right, snap might just auto-restart without the courtesy "I can't open a new tab" message.)

I learned a long time ago to block firefox from contacting mozilla related domains. It does too much unwanted stuff in the background. I update it on my schedule.

There is a snap package for Firefox, but in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Firefox comes from the Deb package.

Did you switch to the snap package yourself?

Firefox does that in debian stable. but it's supposed to restore your tabs like they were

Since when?

That should only happen if you update from underneath it by doing an upgrade though, which is entirely at your discretion with apt. The snap equivalent is obligatory.

That said, the update auto-restore almost always works in my experience. I've been running the nightly channel for a while (which updates once or twice a day) and it rarely eats tabs.

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