Affected versions

• Fx75.0b8

Affected platforms

• Mint
• Fedora
• Ubuntu

Preconditions

• Have Firefox Flatpak installed.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open firefox flatpak from the console using: flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox
2. Navigate to about:support.
3. On the 'Update Directory' line, click the 'Open Directory' button.
4. Close Firefox.
5. In the file manager opened in step 3, double click the Firefox executable file.

Expected result

• Firefox is opened using the profile from step 1 (sandboxed profile).

Actual result

• Firefox opens a brand new profile, in a non-sandboxed folder.

Additional notes

• Checking about:profiles, it can be noticed that the local directory path no longer points to the sandboxed folder.
• The 'Open Directory' button for the profile root folder works correctly, but opens the non-sandboxed folder of ~/.mozilla/firefox/'profile'.

(In reply to Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA from comment #0)

Steps to reproduce

1. Open firefox flatpak from the console using: flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox
2. Navigate to about:support.
3. On the 'Update Directory' line, click the 'Open Directory' button.
4. Close Firefox.
5. In the file manager opened in step 3, double click the Firefox executable file.

Flatpaks can't be run by double-clicking on executable. You have to either run it from console or by clicking on .desktop file.

Found in triaging. Going forward, Flatpak-related bugs will no longer be filed under RelEng, but instead in Core/Widget:GTK where folks have much more in-depth knowledge on this. If the issues are RelEng related, they can be filed against Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other and we'll take care of that.

Marking this as invalid based on comment 1.