Be honest. What did you say that offended Firefox so bad it decided to leave?
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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That he prefers Edge's mother's cooking.
I too prefer to edge over his mom cooking
When the questions you ask chatGPT even offend the browser you're using!
Did it really uninstall itself? Run this command and check whether you can see Firefox's ID or not:
flatpak list
If firefox is still in /usr/lib64/firefox, then it should still be there. Maybe just the .desktop file is removed?
OP mentioned that it was the Flatpak version, which doesnt add anything to root owned parts of the filesystem.
More than likely it was a failed package transition that failed. You were running one version, an update triggered, something went wrong, and your data folders got orphaned. You can try running a repair on the package, but they usually fail the same way.
what distro?
No, because it doesn't happen. Guaranteed your storage device or some other hardware component is having problems that is corrupting your drive.
It's... weird, did you do something that accidentally deleted firefox?
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.
Damn, that's tough. Have you heard about our lord and savior Ubuntu and it's blessed snap version of Firefox?
🤣
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!
I would be interested in knowing why. Isn't the sandboxing supposed to make security better?
i avoid using flatpaks if i can. recently had to migrate mine from the root partition to home partition cuz they had filled my root partition space.
And that's why I don't use flatpaks. Nothing like that has ever happened to me.
You still have the binary then. Type firefox into the terminal.