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Installing Firefox via APT instead of snap on Ubuntu 22.04

WARNING! You may want to do a backup of your firefox profile (see below)

remove firefox snap

snap remove firefox

Install firefox via APT

Add the “Mozilla Team” PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo apt update

Prevent ubuntu from installing firefox via snap when you try to install it via APT by pinning the snap version. Read more about pinning here.

nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox

Fill it with the following content

Package: firefox
Pin: version 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Pin-Priority: -1

this will de-prioritize the snap version.

check which if your hack worked:

sudo apt-cache policy firefox

it should show something like this:

firefox:
  Installed: 115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Candidate: 115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1
  Version table:
     1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 -1
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
     115.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~mt1 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Install firefox via APT
```
sudo apt install firefox
```
Profit!!!

Profile Backup

Snap Firefox profiles are saved in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/ I’ve copied this over to ~/.mozilla/. Sadly firefox wasn’t picking up my old profile on first start, I needed to modify the Default in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini.