firefox lost or reset all its settings???

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, dem 31.10.2022 um 14:59 +0100 schrieb Marco Fioretti:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 13:47:46 PM +0000, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> 
> > Hi Oli and... really?
> > 
> > I'd never have imagined this. Does this mean that firefox only
> > exists as snap
> > package in Ubuntu now?
> > 
> > If so, that's terrible news. For me, at least, I hate snap with a
> > passion...

while i do not undrestand why, this is indeed your given right :)

and yes, firefox and chromium are only available as snap packages if
you want fully security supported ubuntu packages ... 

while there is a firefox testing PPA it is neither official nor would i
count on it to be persistent. 

it might go away eventually since the request for switching to a snap
package came from mozilla (to benefit from all the inegrated snap
features and advantages) they might ask for it to be turned down at
some point (which means firefox will just silently stop getting
(security) updates).

> 
> Oli's observation led me to discover this page:
> 
> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
> 
> that lists, among the many evils of snap
> 
> "some third party integrations are (currently) broken"

yes, there were a few features broken at release day (namely everything
that was using the natve messaging plugin architecture, i.e. keypassxc
or gnome-shell extension management), but snaps use a rolling release
model that is completely independent from the uderlying OS or version,
so all of these bits have been fixed meanwhile ...

> 
> links in terminal [...] unlike previous versions of Ubuntu, if you
> select "open link" that link is NOT open by firefox.
> 
> So is this, indeed, another another example of snap brokenness?

works fine here on all my machines and is not snap related but rather a
desktop setting that might be missing or mis-confgured ... 

i'd suggest creating a fresh test user so you get a pristine set of
configuration and can compare the behavior. 

since you said you actually "installed over" an existing system instead
of doing a properly tested upgrade it is very likely that all the data
migration bits that update-manager/do-release-update take care of have
simply not happened to your user settings.

ciao
	oli
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