Open Bug 1850736 Opened 1 year ago Updated 1 year ago

Firefox flatpak does not support Profiles

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Firefox 118
defect

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: William.full.moon, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. I installed Firefox from Flathub
  2. I ran Firefox
  3. I created a new profile for "shopping"
  4. When I started Firefoz with the "shopping" profile

Actual results:

#4 ... I was told that firefox was already running (it was NOT) and that I can't access the profile.

Expected results:

  • I feel that profiles should work as if Firefox is installed (within the Flatpak container).

  • When I started looking, it seemed that "everything" was in a suitable location

  • But access was not possible

  • I attempted to use Flatseal to give more permission to Firefox, that didn't help

    • I was left to conclude that permission was not the problem it was either the directory tree overlay or something structural in Firefox about how it chooses to access profiles.

I have removed the Firefoc Flatpak from my PC. I want to have profiles. I do not eed firefox without containers.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core
Blocks: flatpak
Priority: -- → P3
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