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I upgraded my system from Ubuntu 20.04 to 21.10. After upgrading, I noticed I had 2 Firefox icons. So, I decided to reinstall it. I tried

sudo apt purge firefox && sudo apt autoremove

But, it only removed one icon. After that, I logged out and logged back in. But, It didn't help. Then, I tried,

sudo apt list --installed | grep firefox

and uninstalled all the packages. It still didn't work. So, I followed this question's answer, Removing Firefox in Ubuntu with all add-ons like it never existed. It didn't help either. Now, if I try,

firefox -v

I get the version of firefox & I can open firefox from Applications. But, if I try uninstalling firefox again, I get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'firefox' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

How, do I uninstall Firefox? I'm asking this question from Google Chrome.

muru
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Abir Sheikh
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    It seems to me, the problem is not firefox package, but you had two different dekstop entries for firefox. Try sudo find / -type f -name "firefox*.desktop" and see if it comes with anything. – Liso Oct 15 '21 at 14:18
  • @Liso Hello, I can open firefox even after this steps. And, as you asked, If I try, sudo find / -type f -name "firefox*.desktop", I get

    /snap/firefox/631/firefox.desktop /snap/firefox/631/meta/gui/firefox.desktop /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied

     – Abir Sheikh Oct 15 '21 at 14:24
  • An upgrade from 20.04 should currently only take you to 21.04 (ie. next supported release) - so you've gone outside of the intended upgrade paths. Your issue is likely the consequence of how you forced your unsupported upgrade.. If moving from 21.04 to 21.10; in some cases no firefox changes occur; in others the deb package gets removed & replaced by a firefox snap; but 20.04 to 21.10 isn't supported yet (and won't be till 21.04 reaches EOL) – guiverc Oct 15 '21 at 22:13

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From your reply, I see you still have snap version of firefox. Try uninstalling it.

sudo snap remove firefox
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