1814001 - Firefox "snap" keeps occupying screen real estate for no purpose at all

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1819050

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[Namgang]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Start Firefox under Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.
Agent string: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0"

Actual results:

Alert pops up: "Pending update of 'firefox' snap. Close the app to avoid disruptions (20 hours left)". This alert pops up regardless of time left (even weeks) and returns if I dismiss it. In short: It is always there and takes up screen real estate on top of everything else. I have never noticed any disruption even when crossing the timeline. In addition I can't decode the message, it makes no sense to me.

Expected results:

Alert shows only if event is fairly imminent, i.e. there is a real issue. Alert message is meaningful to the user.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.