[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 24.04.1: Firefox fails to start

[jeff at cjsa.com]

On 18.10.2024 11:20, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 11:09 -0700, Jeffery Small wrote:
>> "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or
>> inaccessible."
>> 
>> This is not true. The same profiles exist in ~/.mozilla/firefox and
>> even attempting to specify a specific profile with -P fails. This
>> problem seems commonly reported on other versions of Linux but not
>> Ubuntu. I tried removing the entire ~/.mozilla directory but that did
>> nothing. I tried starting in safe mode, but same results. However,
>> there are also other start-up messages:
> 
> If you're using a snap, it could be that the location of those files
> inside the snap is not the same as in your "normal" home directory.
> Remember that snaps run inside a restricted container and don't have
> full access to the system, that's one of their major selling points.
> 
> They are supposed to be able to mount specific parts of your home
> directory so they can access your profile, save content to Downloads,
> etc. but maybe that's not working.
> 
> However, your message confuses me because first you say you're using
> snap, then you say you used the mozillateam ppa.  PPAs are not used for
> installing snaps, as far as I'm aware.  They are for distributing
> native DEB packages.

I think you misread that.  I UNINSTALLED the snap package and am using
the standard deb package from the mozillateam ppa.