Ok, I think I understand better the problem. Indeed the wrapper script was written for a one-shot migration of existing profiles, not with this use case of going back and forth between two different installations of firefox in mind.
Could you maybe solve this by making ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla a bind mount to ~/.mozilla ? Symlinks won't work due to apparmor confinement, but bind mounts should work. > I'd add that snap is woefully slow (both package managing and application > start up) How much slower is the snap? We've done quite some work in the last few months to improve startup time (see https://ubuntu.com/blog/improving- firefox-snap-performance-part-3 for details), and while we're aware we're not yet on par with the deb, we've come much closer than before, and we expect the current startup performance should be acceptable. If it's not, we want to know about it, and we need it to be quantified. -- 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/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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1988665/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
