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Apps uninstalling themselves? (lemmings.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm running Ubuntu, and every once in a while, I boot up my PC and some app is missing that was there previously. Last night I shut down my computer, and this morning Firefox was missing. I lost all my browsing history, cookies, bookmarks, extensions, etc.

This has happened several times before. Does anyone know what's going on? I know I'm not personally removing any of these apps. Is there something I could be doing unknowingly to do this?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Firefox is a snap package on Ubuntu and I had a similar thing happen where it would lose all my settings when it randomly updated.

You could try installing it as a PPA package: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I'll try the deb install instead of snap. I don't know if/when I'll find out if it makes a difference though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I never had it disappear right enough.... However, I ended up installing chrome after Firefox losing all my stuff twice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

don't you sync your account so you will be able to retrieve your bookmark etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I never bothered as I like to keep my work/personal stuff separate (on different machines)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can keep a copy of your FF profile and just load it on a fresh install anytime so you don’t need to reinstall extensions and reconfigure settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Cool, didn't know that! I usually use a distro hop as a fresh start to ignore my ever growing "to-read" folder 😂