Firefox uninstalled itself :|
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I don’t have any advice for this exact problem but if it’s any consolation Firefox has randomly gotten offended at my video drivers and bricked my build. Multiple times. I use Librewolf when I can now.
That is hilarious though, sending frustrated IT vibes your way in both empathy and hopes it’ll help you reach the critical mass of superstition for the problem to fix itself before you have to threaten to take a hammer to it.
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And if ever unsure, look up Firefox on flathub; every app page shows the command line instructions for installing and for running it.
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And that's why I don't use flatpaks. Nothing like that has ever happened to me.
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As someone formerly involved in security at the enterprise OS development scope, I consider one less Flatpak to be an improvement in security and consistency.
Well done!
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I use Flatpaks because they're supposedly more sandboxed thus more secure, especially in something that is exposed to the Internet like a web browser, I need all the sandboxing I can get..
I wish it doesn't happen again, because I spent 2 hours tweaking Firefox, importing data to my extensions and some of them I have to configure manually..
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wow, really? That contradicts everything i heard about Flatpaks
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Actually, in the case of a web browser, Flatpak weakens both Firefox's and Chromium's internal sandboxing, possibly allowing for breaking of cross-site or site-host boundaries. Firefox is even weaker then Chromium as a Flatpak because it can't use the zypak fork server.
For basically any other app, Flatpak can be beneficial as a sandbox.
Basically, don't sandbox browsers because its like wearing 2 condoms. The only sandboxing tool I know that doesn't interfere with the browser's sandbox (and also doesnt allow for the possibility of privilege escalation, like Firejail) is Bubblejail
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people say this all the time but the reasons they give are always nonsense in my experience, sandboxing alone makes flatpak betteh
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Firefox is still extremely messy on Linux. It’s split between multiple platform types (flatpak, deb, snap) and I’ve seen multiple parts start to branch off on their own due to some fault. It’s really weird. Can’t even describe it. Why can’t they just do things simply.
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Damn, that's tough. Have you heard about our lord and savior Ubuntu and it's blessed snap version of Firefox?
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Fedora discourages updating through the CLI.
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Not true at all. It wouldn't matter anyway, because the GUIs in Fedora shell out to the underlying CLI anyway.
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First, it's true. Secondly, it matters a lot because there's no fool proof way to update through the CLI that takes into account all of the software delivery methods that exist today so you could do use dnf to upgrade daily and still have old flatpak or viceversa. That's exactly why Fedora recommends updating through the GUI.
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No, because it doesn't happen. Guaranteed your storage device or some other hardware component is having problems that is corrupting your drive.
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It's new hardware, and this is a fresh install.. still.. you could be right
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It's blessed so hard, it'll snap itself out of your system resources, giving you more RAM.. Amen
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Thanks for sharing, I'll will look into BubbleJail, and I installed the standard FF .rpm package, it's much more stable than the Flatpak... hmmm
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I too prefer to edge over his mom cooking
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I would be interested in knowing why. Isn't the sandboxing supposed to make security better?
