Is there a way to safely remove snaps in Ubuntu MATE?

I use:

  • Firefox as snap, and
  • Thunderbird as snap - with adapted profiles.ini, but this was even before Thunderbird as snap
  • since they were provided in Ubuntu

Firefox IS my daily driver AND development browser!

Except for the first versions as snap, I never had any issue / performance issue with Firefox & Thunderbird as snaps and that's the reason I did not opt for removing the snaps and installing the deb packages.

I used following PCs (not notebooks):

Currently I use this PC:

I know this is just my opinion and experience and may not help anyone.
Just wanted to say that some users may be happy with snaps, others not.

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