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My firefox is not saving downloads. The download location is simply ~/Downloads and chrome for instance happily saves in there. Oddly, if I "download" a PDF from google drive, the firefox sprouts a new tab and shows me the downloaded PDF. But anything else doesn't seem to work. This even extends to "print to file" - it offers the "save as pdf" option but then does not go any further when pressing the "Save" button.

It is also not letting me upload files, e.g. attachments for webmail.

The "about firefox" info says version 111.0 (64-bit), Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu, canonical-002-1.0

This is on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, 64-bit, with GNOME 42.5

Thanks for suggestions so far. I have tried:

  • uninstalling firefox using apt and snap: sudo apt remove firefox; sudo snap remove firefox; rm -rf ~/.mozilla ~/snap/firefox. Then I installed fresh with sudo snap install firefox

  • refreshing Firefox

  • verifying the snap connections, with snap connections | grep -e home -e "personal-files" -e "removable-media" which all seemed in order, giving home firefox:home :home, personal-files firefox:dot-mozilla-firefox :personal-files, and removable-media firefox:removable-media :removable-media

  • using Private Browsing

Still no good. Any other ideas?

Mr Felix U
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I switched from the Firefox snap to the official Mozilla apt repository 3 months ago. You can find the PPA installation instructions on this article from OMG! Ubuntu

The major problem I have with snap installations is that snaps are sandboxed for security, but this becomes very annoying when trying to access files on your disk (e.g. Firefox). I believe there is a way to configure snap's permissions (called connections), but I didn't find a way to correctly configure it.

Milo Moisson
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