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Conversely Linux Mint has agreed for Mozilla to provide debs directly for Mint. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4244

Good that I am not using Mint - I prefer to have a real packager who cares about my interests between Mozilla and my Firefox install.

You can use the snap for Firefox in Mint, it's just not the default.

The Firefox snap is also maintained by Mozilla.