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Firefox snap has no access to /tmp profiles path

See original GitHub issue

When running Firefox as snap, he does’t have access to the /tmp directory and therefore firefox cannot load the profile. It was really hard to debug, because FIrefox doesn’t fail to start in -headless mode and therefore there is just a karma timeout.

FIrefox solves that by putting tmp files into ~/Downloads/firefox.tmp/.

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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perry-mitchellcommented, Sep 8, 2022

Any fix for this? Running into it in Karma+Firefox now, Ubuntu 22.04, Firefox 104.0.2:

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ipbc-devcommented, Oct 19, 2022

Many thanks for your reply. I confirm the profile option works correctly.

        customLaunchers: {
            'FirefoxHeadless': {
                base: 'Firefox',
                flags: [ '-headless' ],
                profile: require('path').join(__dirname, 'tmp'),
            }
        },

I leave this as an exercise to a future reader to define a good, possibly random, location and clean up after test suite completes, if necessary. This should make us able to workaround this annoying bug that Ubuntu snap has.