Firefox cannot use symlinked directories for reading or writing
Bug #2017604 reported by
Tony Lewis
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| firefox (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
My ~/Downloads directory is symlinked to a slower disk. Firefox is unable to save any downloads; they show up as failed. This also happens using 'Save image as ...'
Further, if I'm uploading a file to a website, it can't be from a symlinked directory (in my case, ~/tmp).
Other context: this is a fresh Kubuntu 22.10 install:
Description: Ubuntu 22.10
Release: 22.10
Firefox is version 112.0.1+
I tried this using a pristine profile, and the problem still remained.
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| Amin Bandali (bandali) wrote | #1 |
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Hello, and sorry for the slow reply here.
Are you still able to reproduce this issue? I know the Firefox snap has some inherent limitations, such as not being able to access /tmp. However, I can't think of any reason why non-snap Firefox like from the mozillateam ppa wouldn't be able to access it. Can you also please double-check to make sure that this is indeed Firefox from the mozillateam ppa and not the Firefox snap? Thanks.