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I use Brave browser in Ubuntu to access nsandi.com bank web page but today I received an error that it was taking to long to download the web page.

I checked nsandi.com's web page and they have instigated two factor security which requires particular browsers and OS. Linux Brave was not among them.

I also had Firefox installed in Ubuntu via snap but it was not the latest version required by nsandi.com. I uninstalled the snap version, downloaded and installed the latest package from Mozilla, following the instructions on their download page. Lo and behold, it was the same version as that I had uninstalled from the snap.

nsandi.com think they may have a problem and are looking into it, so, after all, if the problem is their end then the snap version may work.

I cannot find the same Mozilla instructions I used but this is what I did:

mkdir -p ~/bin
tar -xf /home/makem/Desktop/firefox-115.0.2.tar.bz2
tar -xf /home/makem/Desktop/firefox-115.0.2.tar.bz2 --directory ~/bin

The executable is ~/bin/firefox/firefox

I would like to uninstall that package and reinstall the snap from repos.

Zatigem
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    Does this answer your question? [Removing Firefox in Ubuntu with all add-ons like it never existed](https://askubuntu.com/questions/16758/removing-firefox-in-ubuntu-with-all-add-ons-like-it-never-existed) – graham Jul 22 '23 at 15:18
  • You should have followed [these instructions](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux). How did you installed firefox ? – Zatigem Jul 22 '23 at 15:30
  • Also, have a look in your command history with `history` – Zatigem Jul 22 '23 at 15:48
  • From 'history' I find the commands used to install Firefox were: 319 mkdir -p ~/bin 320 tar -xf /home/makem/Desktop/firefox-115.0.2.tar.bz2 321 tar -xf /home/makem/Desktop/firefox-115.0.2.tar.bz2 --directory ~/bin – makem Jul 22 '23 at 15:53
  • "*I also had Firefox installed in Ubuntu via snap but it was not the latest version....*" That's very suspicious, since the Firefox snap comes directly from Mozilla, and folks on the correct channel *always* have the latest. Use `snap info firefox` to see which versions are available and which channel you are using. – user535733 Jul 22 '23 at 16:05
  • I have the latest stable 115.0.2-1. There are beta, edge and esr versions. – makem Jul 23 '23 at 16:17

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Just remove the ~/bin directory with:

rm -r ~/bin

You shouldn't use this directory name to put the application, it's confusing. See this.

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