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Former Member
4 years ago

Browser and desktop app sync not working.

Hi, I have a DELL XPS 13 laptop, ubuntu 22.04 kernel 5.15.0-46-generic - I use KDE as a DE with i3 as window manager. Syncing between the app and browser(s) doesn't work. I downloaded deb file ...
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Forst
New Contributor
4 years ago

I see you mention Firefox is from apt specifically on your system, but I'd like to highlight that on Ubuntu 22.04 Firefox has been switched to Snap by default.

As of today, the support for Native Messaging in Firefox Snap is still in beta. I've installed the beta with snap refresh firefox --beta, but the browser integration still doesn't work. Wonder if it's related to what you're experiencing with apt-based Firefox install.

Related Ubuntu Discourse topic: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-native-messaging-support-in-the-firefox-snap/29759