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Ubuntu is not really targeting multi-user any more. Security update installation is deliberately delayed for all users, until at some point all unprivileged users ended all processes launched from the vulnerable snap image. (Firefox RPC breaks when you replace the binary, so having to reopen your browser to keep opening tabs simple because security upgrades were applied in the background would be inconvenient)


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