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I am running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS on my laptop and have been, for a while, leaning away from using snap. Now I am leaning away from using firefox.

I tried to get geckodriver installed in order to run python-selenium scrapes. I was not successful.

But, since something expected the geckodriver executable to be in /snap/bin and some of these things are soft linked to each other, I now get this:

 $ snap
 WebDriver implementation for Firefox

Usage:


Options:
       --allow-hosts <ALLOW_HOSTS>...
 ...

I get the same thing from trying to launch firefox on the command-line as well. They are obviously pointing to a geckodriver executable and the snap and the firefox executables have perhaps been deleted?

I am now using Brave but I would like to be able to use firefox at times. And I do not want to delete or lose all of my history, bookmarks and profiles.

But how can I do a "snap-ish" install of firefox if breaking firefox has also broken snap? And why was it so easy to paint myself into this corner?

Ray Kiddy
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You can manually copy the snap Firefox profile and restore bookmarks/history manually after installing Firefox APT version.

Archisman Panigrahi
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