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
Thanks for the video very helpful.
Tarballs are nice but i wish they included ./install script so it would be easier to add them to path and menu
It is pretty straightforward once you have extracted and create a menu entry to point to the launcher.
Sorry, but this is a joke.
Zorin OS is advertised as a user-friendly operating system that is fit to replace Windows. Whatever you say about Windows, I don't know any Windows users whose Firefox has been removed and replaced with a different version that has none of their bookmarks, passwords, etc.
As this is a well-known issue with Zorin, it should be fixed ASAP. This is not an obscure problem relevant only to users with strange tastes in software — it's fundamental.
I really wanted to give Zorin a try after using Mint for years, but it's making it very difficult for me to keep my temper after the exact same thing happened to me today.
Welcome to the Forum!
I understand that Your are upset. But we have to seperate here 2 things: What Zorin does and what Ubuntu does.
Ubuntu - the Base of Zorin - only has Firefox as Snap Package. And when You want install the APT Package, there isn't one. Except a Transitional Package what leads to the Installation of the Snap Package.
Now, Mozilla has created an own Repository what offers Firefox. And Zorin has created a Package for adding this Repo and then get Firefox as APT/.deb Package from this Repo when You want install Firefox this Way to not get the Snap Package. Now, it looks like that sometimes the added Repo is not respected every Time and that leads to the Installation of the Snap Package during an Update.
When You nw have this Issue that the Snap Package gets installed, I would suggest the Following: Uninstall the snap Package. Then go to /etc/apt/preferences.d and look there for a File simply called mozilla and add what I wrote above to it:
then make a sudo apt update && sudo apt install firefox and check that the Firefox APT Package will be installed. You can detect it, that on the Package Version no snap is added.
It must be ubuntu force.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1nmjgvb/firefox_snap_keeps_reinstalling_itself_even_after/
And Ubuntu and GNOME is known for taking action really late, or don't care user feedback.
Which is why I prefer tarballs:
Perfectly valid.
And I have seen a strangely large number of reports across the web, recently, that users of Firefox APT installs are getting suddenly converted to SNAP's without notification or warning.
Canonical's long history of forcing SNAP makes giving benefit of the doubt that this in error a strain on credulity.
Yes, just in this forum, i have seen 3 or 4 times this issue has been reported.