I wonder how slack requests opening links. Does it explicitly invoke the firefox binary with a "-profile" parameter, instead of calling e.g. xdg- open ?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1901959 Title: Default Profile is called "default-release", programs like Slack open links with different "default" profile Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Firefox 82.0 Ubuntu 20.04 The default profile in the Ubuntu Firefox package is called "default- release", while the typical profile name for Firefox is "default". Slack opens links using the default profile when Firefox is the browser, causing links to open in a different profile than normal without the extensions , history, etc. from the normal browsing profile. To reproduce: - Set up Firefox in Ubuntu , run session to generate profile, install extensions - Install Slack from snap : snap install slack - Firefox as default browser in Ubuntu - Open link in Slack Slack opens the "default" profile of Firefox, which is different than the "default-release" that the Ubuntu firefox package defaults to. Expected: Ubuntu Firefox uses the normal "default" profile as default. Cheers, To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1901959/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
