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How do I launch the Profile Manager of Flatpak Firefox with Gnome 3? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would like the Firefox profile manager to open when I run Firefox from the GNOME 3 menu, be it the DashBar or the native menu. I installed Firefox using Flatpak.

I know that I can run it from the terminal with flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox -p. But how do I modify the .desktop file? I guess it is the one in /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop? I tried replacing the line

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox --file-forwarding org.mozilla.firefox @@u %u @@

with

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=firefox org.mozilla.firefox --ProfileManager

but I cannot save the document because of "too many symbolic links".

What is the secret?

I really wish Firefox would simply offer this as an option in its settings.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Copy the unmodified .desktop file to ~/.local/share/Applications and make your changes there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will give this a shot. Thank you.

Is it just me or are there too many places where .desktop files could be located?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think in the case of flatpak, they moved them to a different location because they are symlinked within the flatpak itself and should be readonly, where as the other locations are for system desktop files (distro package manager), local desktop files (yours) and optional desktop files (things youve built from source)

Doesn't seem so bad when you consider that