The snap packages in Ubuntu refresh (update) automatically once or a couple of times a day. When you see the ‘pending Firefox update’ you wrongly presume that the application has been updated in the background and restart will upgrade it to the newer version. It asks you to restart the browser at your convenience to update.īut why does it keep showing the notification even after your restart the browser or the system?īecause it’s a poor notification message that doesn’t give you the complete information. This notification is part of that ‘improved user experience.’ Here, Firefox is not stopping you from browsing anymore. Firefox forced restart in the pastĪfter switching the Firefox browser to Snap packaging by default, the Ubuntu team made some changes to the update process. It would not have let you open any website until you restarted the browser. Fixing the ‘pending update of Firefox snap’ problemĮarlier, Firefox used to update in the background and then required you to restart the browser. The suggested steps should work for them as well.

The same issue has been encountered with VS Code and other Snap applications.

Firefox updated version