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Trouble Installing Firefox

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I've been trying to install firefox for Ubuntu today, and I cannot get it to work, i've tried using snap, and through normal terminal install but cannot get it to work. If I just click the icon on applications nothing happens, but if I run it from the terminal I get this error,

Not loading module "atk-bridge" the functionality is provided by GTK natively. Please try to not load it.
[GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.

Edit: I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 And the commands that I'm using are:

  • $ sudo apt install firefox
  • sudo snap install firefox
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cn flag
What is the Ubuntu version?
Organic Marble avatar
us flag
So your issue is not, in fact, installing Firefox, but in running it.
us flag
Can you try the following (non-snap) method instead? https://askubuntu.com/a/1404401/124466
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cn flag
The question is unclear because Ubuntu desktop 22.04 comes with Firefox already installed as a snap. Is it a server?
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ec flag
`sudo apt install firefox` installs the snap by default on Ubuntu 22.04, it's a dummy package. Please add to the original question the output of `snap list`.
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We can install Firefox in Ubuntu with five steps

Step 1: Remove the Firefox Snap by running the following command

sudo snap remove firefox

Step 2: Add the (Ubuntu) Mozilla team PPA to your list of software sources by running the following command in the same Terminal window

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa

Step 3: Next, alter the Firefox package priority to ensure the PPA/deb/apt version of Firefox is preferred. This can be done using a slither of code from FosTips (copy and paste it whole, not line by line)

echo ' Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001 ' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla-firefox

Step 4: Since you’ll (hopefully) want future Firefox upgrades to be installed automatically

echo 'Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "LP-PPA-mozillateam:${distro_codename}";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox

Step 5: Finally, install Firefox via apt by running this command

sudo apt install firefox

I Hope these steps will help you

SOURCE:[OMGUBUNTU][1]

[1]: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04#:~:text=Installing%20Firefox%20via%20Apt%20(Not,reinstalled%20at%20a%20later%20date.

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