Thanks for the report.
Could you please provide more details on how your network is set up, so
we can understand how your use case could be better handled by the
firefox snap?
In the current version, a profile stored in ~/.mozilla/firefox is
imported into ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox when the snap is
run for the first time, so people shouldn't just be losing their
profiles, unless something isn't working as expected.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Opinion => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1988665
Title:
snap install of firefox is a bad idea on heterogeneous networks
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
We run a network of linux computers mixing a variety of flavours of
ubuntu and other distros - for many reasons they can't all run the
same system and they can't all be updated simultaneously.
The switch for snap for firefox is a real PITA because the profile is
stored elsewhere. So we have people losing their profiles, people
ending up with unsynchronised profiles, and a whole lot of annoyance.
It looks like snapping a key component such as this hasn't really been
thought through beyond the single user / single computer point of
view.
So the snap of firefox should be reverted back to deb (or an update
option with an easy alternative fix offered) and any further
conversions of packages to snaps should be consider the heterogeneous
network environment (with fixes) before proceeding.
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