Reinstalling Firefox snap deletes profile
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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snap-store-desktop |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I uninstalled the firefox snap and installed it, my firefox browsing history was reset to April.
After inspecting the sessionstore files (~/snap/
Expected behavior:
When uninstalling a snap, it should not delete the profile (~/snap/
When installing a snap, it should not migrate deb user config/data to the snap location if it there already exists.
Actual behavior:
Either uninstallation clears the snap user config/data.
Or migration of deb user config/data overwrites snap user config/data.
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-43-generic
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Firefox version before: 103.0.1-1 1635 latest/stable
Firefox version after: 103.0.2-1 1670 latest/stable
Changed in snap-store-desktop: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
firefox from snap doesn't work with
etokens. This is a known bug. The solution
is to uninstall the snap version and
install firefox-esr from PPA.
When, after that operation, you find
your profile entirely deleted, with
all passwords, credentials and histories,
you get into a "bad mood" quite deeply.
This bug is completely unacceptable.
Keeping it unfixed is completely
unacceptable. Authors of the snap's code
in question are completely unacceptable.
:(