Clicking links in Steam chat doesn't work, it doesn't open the browser. I assume this is because of Firefox installed as a Snap. Any way to make this work?
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Well, you could install the Firefox tarball... it will self-update as it does in Windows. It might not see your existing profile, but if you sync your FF account before hand, that wont matter. Alternatively you can do what I did and that is use the Team Mozilla PPA and install it with Apt. You will need to force the PPA to be primary over SNAP, which you can do with:
sudo kate /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa
which will create an empty file, then add the lines:
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 501
And save. The advantage of this is extensions all work, as does desktop integration, which is broken in the SNAP.
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa -
Posting the solution here since it took me a while to figure out.
The problem is a package called wslu.
wslu is installed as a dependency of gimp-help-en which is recommended by the system as a language pack after you install gimp. If the system asks you to install language packs after removing wslu, it will be reinstalled unless you have another package that meets a condition gimp-help-en needs.
Read top answer here for more info: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1410...es-do-not-openComment
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