I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my home desktop and went to upgrade my copy of Firefox to the new Quantum version.
My computer is set up with two internal hard drives; and SSD for the OS and a 1tb WD hard drive for storage. The 'old' version of Firefox could see or navigate to the internal storage drive… the Quantum version can't see/find that drive OR any external drives attached to my computer. Google Chrome has no issues with the internal drive, and I don't think the drive is at fault since Chrome can find and save to it, and the old version of Firefox (now re-installed) can find and save to the internal drive… so what's going on with Firefox Quantum?
Mount at system startup is checked
Show in use interface is checked
Require additional authorization is NOT checked
NO Display Name
NO Icon Name
NO Symbolic Icon Name
unamed field has these properties: nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show
Mount Point = /mnt/Storage_Disc_01
Identify As = /dev/disk/by-label/Storage_Disc_01
Fiesystem Type = auto
What am I doing wrong, or can Firefox Quantum only see the drive it's installed on?
Best Answer
As you installed Firefox as Snap it is expected behaviour.
By default it has access only to the home folder. See this question and answer for details. And it will produce permission error on access to
/media/$USER/drive/
folder:You should manually connect
:removable-media
plug to Firefox to remove this errorand you will get the following connectors list:
If it does not work or you do not want to make such connection - remove Snap version with
and install deb-version instead (you will get 60.0.2):