Yesterday Firefox destroyed all my bookmarks and extensions for no reason at all.
Today when I look in software centre it looks like the installed Firefox is a snap. I don't remember installing a snap of FireFox I'm pretty sure it was zorin repo version.
Anyone else having a similar problem.
Also can't get web app to work with this version keeps telling me the following.
ya same happened to me a few days ago i removed it then reinstalled as a flatpak then signed into sync and got bookmarks back its working fine now
Glad this has happened to you. I don't mean it in a bad way. I thought I going off my trolly.
You received a Firefox Update before this?
Could You check in /etc/apt/preferences.d if there is a File called ''mozilla'' and if it's there, open it with Text Editor and copy the Content here please.
Got it sorted thanks.Just UN-installed the Snap and the ZorinOS package then re-installed the ZorinOS Firefox Everything back to normal Passwords, extensions and bookmarks all restored back to normal.
That's crazy to hear from many people. Is it fault of Zorin Updates or Firefox itself?
No its Canonical behaving like Microsoft and Gnome, "We know what is best for users, users don't".
If I were still using Zorin I would only ever download the official tarball from Mozilla.
Maybe Canonical has changed something for the Firefox Snap Package. I have added to the Mozilla Perferences File for prioritizing the Mozilla Source a negative Priority for the Ubuntu Package so that the File looks loke that:
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -10
Because I don't use Snap, I uninstalled it and added a nosnap File, too to downgrade it with the Content:
# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of snap,
# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10