1844279 - Firefox Snap can not import data from google-chrome

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1818237

(Firefox Build System :: Third Party Packaging, defect)

Description

[thomasbechtold]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I want to switch from google-chrome (115.0.5790.98, installed via a .deb package) to firefox (snap)

I installed the Firefox snap (from the latest/stable channel) on Ubuntu 23.04 :

$ snap info firefox|grep installed
installed: 115.0.2-1 (2908) 256MB -

Then I started Firefox and followed https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-data-another-browser but when I click the "Import Data" button, I get an error which says :

Firefox couldn’t find any programs that contain bookmark, history or password data.

I think that's due to the snap confinement but I wonder if the firefox snap should have access to ~/.config/google-chrome/ (that's the directory where the google-chrome data is) to be able to import data

Actual results:

The data can not be imported from google-chrome

Expected results:

the data import from google-chrome works so I can start using firefox

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox Build System::Third Party Packaging' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:gerard-majax, could you have a look please?

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