firefox-geckodriver package is now missing from Ubuntu 22.04

[Velkan]

There is no deb package for Firefox any more (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1399383/ubuntu-22-04-jammy-traditional-deb-package-for-firefox), no `firefox-geckodriver` package either.

Now they use some kind of Firefox snap package.

How to install `firefox-geckodriver` with snap?

Where is a site like https://packages.ubuntu.com to browse/search for the snap packages and files?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1401374/firefox-geckodriver-is-now-missing-in-ubuntu-22-04

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I had a look at including geckodriver in the firefox snap, but the problem is that the executable tries to execute the firefox binary (/snap/bin/firefox), and under strict confinement it doesn't have the permission to do that.

geckodriver binary releases can be downloaded from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases, but I'm getting the following error when running it in conjunction with the firefox snap:

  « Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible. »

This requires further investigation.

[Iwan Vosloo (iv)]

It looks like geckodriver has now been fixed in its release 0.32.0 (2022-10-13) to cater for a firefox inside a snap: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.32.0

From the release notes:

"
Fixed

Using geckodriver to launch Firefox inside a sandbox -- for example a Firefox distribution using Snap or Flatpak
"