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A web search for "ubuntu snaps" turns up a number of articles about this, several from Ubuntu itself. That may be a good place to start.
It appears that Ubuntu software center uses snaps & in the past things installed with it also showed up installed in Synaptic package manager. I just checked "Gimp" and in Ubuntu software center it is installed; however, in Synaptic it doesn't show up as installed (either).
Your Firefox is installed using Snap and not an apt package, so synaptic doesn't see it, because Synaptic is a front end to apt package management system.
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