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andreamoro
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Cannot open Dropbox website through Linux client

Similarly to the issue described here, on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 with the dropbox client recently installed, by the time I press the button on the app to say "Open the Dropbox site", the browser opens ...
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    andreamoro
    3 years ago

    Uninstalling the snap version (sudo snap remove firefox) and installing the traditional version via `sudo apt-get install firefox` resolved the problem.

     

    The xdg-mime query default text/html now returns the expected firefox.desktop which you Здравко initially flagged as suspicious.

     

    What a pain 🙂

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andreamoro
Helpful | Level 6

And here we go ... Firefox was installed with Snap... and has a result it creates some kind of shims for the temporary folder.

 

That's where the content is. I start to believe this Snap is more a pain than a solution.

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andreamoro
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Uninstalling the snap version (sudo snap remove firefox) and installing the traditional version via `sudo apt-get install firefox` resolved the problem.

 

The xdg-mime query default text/html now returns the expected firefox.desktop which you Здравко initially flagged as suspicious.

 

What a pain 🙂

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