How to install Firefox Snap in Ubuntu

We have already covered how to install Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu operating system, now we will share Firefox Snap installation instructions.

What is Mozilla Snap

The latest version of the browser pleased that it is available not only as a program for the Linux operating system, but also as a Snap package for Ubuntu. Although the developer itself states that the Snap package was ready back in 2016, but it took them a while to finalize it and roll it out to users in its ready form. Now, the package is finally ready and can be used by users.

Installation process

If you needed to bring back the Snap version of Firefox, you can literally do it in no time. To do this, we need to uninstall Firefox from the PPA:

sudo apt remove firefox

After that we can install the program from the snap package:

sudo snap install firefox

You can also remove the priority settings file /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla-firefox and the PPA repository itself from the system.