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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[–] 21 points 3 years 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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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