Firefox containers are not working about browsers HOT 13 CLOSED

Did you refresh the list of browsers? Using the ⋮ menu.
Also, if you have a long list make sure you scroll down as well.

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Yes, I tried refresh and scroll. Only one entry for Firefox is shown. No container specific one.

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Could you refresh the list again and then see recent logs.
Check if logs has any lines starting with Skipping containers for profile and please post the ending of those lines here.

I'm going to try it out in Linux in a few weeks to take a closer look.

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I've got a similar issue. Browsers-software only sees Google Chrome, Chromium, but not Firefox. I have three profiles, but none of them is displayed.
Is it possible to add some customer browser entries in settings? I only see options to hide an app or profile, but not to add one.

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Hey, @GRbit Could you specify (1) which linux distro you use, (2) which desktop environment you use, (3) which packaging you used to install firefox and (4) does Firefox show up in you system settings where you can choose a default browser.

Could you also check log file to see if there is anything mentioned about Firefox.

About your second question, no there is no builtin way to add custom entries in settings, I really really want to get it working in a way, where it "just works".

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@liias Thank you very much for the prompt response!

1. Debian based MX-Linux
2. XFCE
3. firefox (sudo apt install firefox)
4. It does, but I'm not sure if it was by default. My configs lived for years, so I may did something for it to be shown there. For some reason I remember that there were some problems with Firefox checking that it's a default browser and asking me to choose it as default over and over.

Could you also check log file to see if there is anything mentioned about Firefox.

Nothing

INFO browsers: Starting Browsers
INFO browsers: Logging to /home/grbit/.local/state/software.Browsers/logs/browsers.log
INFO browsers::utils: Config: /home/grbit/.local/share/software.Browsers/config.json
INFO druid_shell::backend::gtk::application: gtk: Activated application

I awe your goal, it's really inspiring and amazing to see people in Linux community who set the bar this high. Can only wish you a lot of luck, since Linux distros is peculiar zoo with tons of rare species. Though, I might be a good thing to have at least an option of using some widespread standards like *desktop files for example. I know firefox doesn't create this one, but for other software like browsers I've created some for firefox profiles and it worked.

Also, if you can share some articles or docs describing the way you are detecting Firefox profiles, I'll spent some time to check if it's possible in my system to detect profiles in a similar way. I mean, maybe it's just another directory or something like this. I'm not good at reading rust code, but don't be afraid of sharing some technical details.

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Hey. Thanks a lot for all the answer and feedback, appreciate it!
So that I have the information when I get down to debugging this one day. Could you refresh the list of browsers (through the 3-dot menu) and check the logs then and paste the content again.

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2023-04-19T01:21:03.574087784+01:00  INFO browsers: refresh called
2023-04-19T01:21:03.574087784+01:00  INFO browsers: refresh called
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firefox.png
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/google-chrome.png
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/opera.png
2023-04-19T01:21:03.853545666+01:00  INFO browsers::utils: Config: /home/dk/.local/share/software.Browsers/config.json
2023-04-19T01:21:03.853545666+01:00  INFO browsers::utils: Config: /home/dk/.local/share/software.Browsers/config.json

No mention of any errors related to firefox in the logs.

PS: Sorry for the late reply; been away.

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Just in case it could be needed too, here is my log

2023-04-19T11:40:25.547566411+02:00  INFO browsers: refresh called
icon: /home/grbit/.local/share/icons/telegram.png
icon: /home/grbit/.local/share/icons/telegram.png
icon: /usr/share/pixmaps/Zoom.png
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.xfce.webbrowser.png
icon: /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png
icon: /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/chromium.png
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/google-chrome.png
icon: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/librewolf.png
2023-04-19T11:40:26.142869845+02:00  INFO browsers::utils: Config: /home/grbit/.local/share/software.Browsers/config.json

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@GRbit I moved your issue to a new issue #20. It seems a bit more complicated problem, but I will need to dig deeper into your specific distro/xfce.

@codemedic, I will also look this week into issue with firefox containers, but I think the fix is rather easy.
Your probably also don't see a firefox profile name under Firefox title?

Browsers is detecting browsers by their .desktop file name. Could you see what's the one in KDE neon?
E.g locate firefox.desktop

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@liias

Browsers is detecting browsers by their .desktop file name

I've added *.desktop files after I've installed browsers, and it didn't detected it even after I've hit refresh button. BUT after reboot it finally found these files I've created. At the same time, it still didn't found the original files. I will post files content in #20

Also, another software I tried https://github.com/properlypurple/braus also doesn't detect original firefox.desktop file, but detects files that I've created myself. So, I guess it might be something wrong with the original desktop file.

UPD: It detected files correctly, but it doesn't open links at all when I click on these new firefox options.

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Hey, @codemedic, this issue should be fixed. Please download the latest version and refresh the list.
I will close the issue, feel free to re-open if the issue still exists.

@GRbit , thanks for testing, let's continue that discussion in issue #20 then.

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@liias even though this didn't fix the issue for my setup, I recently noticed that the profile opened by Browsers is called default while my default profile was called default-release. It is apparently the profile name used since v67 of firefox. https://superuser.com/a/1556315/28775

So, I tried deleting the default profile created by Browsers and that fixed the problem.

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