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This is solved of sorts. I exported my bookmarks and passwords to files, uninstalled Firefox, installed Flatpak Firefox, then imported bookmarks and passwords. I remain to have no idea what the actual issue was, this was a workaround rather than a fix. Many thanks for the help.

Probably either the wrong Firefox package (the Ubuntu one) is installed. If the first command shows Firefox is also available from the Linux Mint repository, the solution would be to run apt purge firefox* and then apt install firefox. Would apt purge firefox* then apt install firefox retain passwor...

grant@grant-Latitude-E6420:~$ inxi -r Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport 2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restr...

In Software Manager only the Flatpak version is shown 112.0.1

Last Firefox update to 103.0 2022-07-28

grant@grant-Latitude-E6420:~$ apt policy firefox firefox: Installed: 103.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Candidate: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 Version table: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 800 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages 112.0+linuxmint1+vera 700 700 http://packages.linuxmint.com vera/upstre...

Yes this is odd, I've just attempted to update Firefox without success... grant@grant-Latitude-E6420:~$ sudo apt install --only-upgrade firefox [sudo] password for grant: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be insta...

I was using Mint Mate 20.3 and I used the upgrading tool to upgrade to 21.0 which I've since updated to 21.1
I can only assume that my Firefox has not been updating for some reason.

Many thanks for that.

When I use Help - About Firefox it tells me that my version is 103.0 though is why I said it's a later version.

Mint Mate 21.1 using the updating tool from 20.3

What's the wisdom on Flatpak Firefox ? It seems to be a later version and I've seen it claimed that it updates quicker. When you install it can you import settings from your existing Firefox ? Do you delete your existing Firefox ? I'm uncertain how to replace one with the other, any advice welcomed.

The main issue here was that I did not have the package Network-Manager-Gnome installed. Without it Network Manager did not have the tab VPN. The Zoog instructions are generalised Linux instructions that do differ from Mint 21 MATE but are not so very different that they cannot be worked out provide...

The Zoog instructions for this install bear scant resemblance to what I'm finding on Mint 21 MATE. I have emailed Zoog support for their comments.

Thank you, I'll go with that later...

I'm trying to install ZoogVPN following these instructions https://zoogvpn.com/help/linux-setup/ From the top... 1 check. 2 and 3 'sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn' Network manager installed but without Do you want to continue Y. (reinstall shows network-manager-openvpn is already the ne...

A big thank you to all the devs...

My question is will the update tool be able to update from 19.3 to 21.x at end of support in about a years time ? No, the new upgrade tool will upgrade from 20.3 to 21: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4293. To upgrade from 19.3 you'd first use the legacy mintupgrade tool to upgrade from 19.3 to 20 ht...

While I probably could update using the command line method if I followed an idiot sheet my usual practice is to fresh install at end of support. As such I normally wouldn't update from say 20.3 to 21.0 with my update being 19.3 to 21.x. At present I have two installs of 19.3 which my ordinary inten...

Hmmmmmmm, I'm running a Core 2 quad which must be circa 2009 and an i5 which must be circa 2012 nonproblematically, indeed I'm happy with the performances.

I've had a Dell laptop in need of an install for a few weeks, thought I might as well wait for the release of 20. I don't upgrade for upgrades sake and the other four machines here will stay on 19.3. It's fast, smooth and no issues, it's a joy to use. Another solid release, congratulations and thank...

Seemingly controversial with view to snapd. From the May monthly news... Snap We also heard your queries on the topic of snapd. This is a topic which is important to us and we already explained our position last year: […] as you install APT updates, Snap becomes a requirement for you to continue to ...

The first question to ask is do I need to upgrade. Mint 19 will work perfectly well for another three years. I will be doing an install of 20 as I have a laptop that needs an install and seeing as 20 is so close it makes sense to wait, but the four other machines here will continue to run 19.3 as it...