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> I guess the snap firefox looks for profiles in a different location,
> and the profiles aren't transferred from the old deb-firefox location
> to the snap-firefox-expected location.
They should be, there is code in the snap's launcher to import existing
profiles.
If you are willing to test
I upgraded from 21.04 to 21.10. Other (non-sudo) users of the computer
reported that their Firefox profiles were lost.
I uninstalled the snap firefox, and installed deb firefox via apt. Their
profiles "came back".
I guess the snap firefox looks for profiles in a different location, and
the
I understand the frustration. It's unlikely that the profile import lost
one of the windows in such a reproducible manner, but just in case, can
you try re-installing the firefox deb (if it was removed: `sudo apt
install firefox`), run it after closing the snap (`/usr/bin/firefox`)
and see if your
Hi Olivier,
I have given that a try but no luck. It still only finds 3 of the 4
windows that were open at the time of the upgrade with the one it can't
find being the primary one with 50+ tabs.
It does not show up in recently closed tabs/windows either so I guess
it's just lost, extremely
Your old profile wasn't removed along with the deb package, it should
still be in ~/.mozilla/firefox/. If you close the firefox snap, delete
~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox then re-run the snap, it should
attempt to import the existing profiles from the deb again.
Please let us know
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