Issues with Firefox and Add Water on GNOME

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Hello, on brand new installs with the latest GNOME iso, Firefox Home (new tab page) isn’t working after the second start of Firefox and is showing as blank:

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Also Add Water isn’t launching (looking for Firefox profile in the wrong place, I think):

   ~  addwater                                                         ✔ 
/home/pacu/.cache/add-water already exists. Skipped.
/home/pacu/.cache/add-water/downloads already exists. Skipped.
/home/pacu/.cache/add-water/logs already exists. Skipped.
All paths initialized.
-------------------------
[INFO]   addwater.apps.firefox.firefox_details — 06:09 || Setting Firefox data path: 
[ERROR]   addwater.apps.firefox.firefox_details — 06:09 || Tried to set app_path to non-existant path. Path given: 
[CRITICAL]   addwater.apps.firefox.firefox_details — 06:09 || Could not find any valid data paths. App cannot function.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/addwater/addwater/apps/firefox/firefox_details.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.set_data_path(current_path)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/addwater/addwater/apps/firefox/firefox_details.py", line 167, in set_data_path
    raise FileNotFoundError("Invalid data path")
FileNotFoundError: Invalid data path

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/addwater", line 46, in <module>
    sys.exit(main.main(VERSION))
             ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/addwater/addwater/main.py", line 179, in main
    app = AddWaterApplication()
  File "/usr/share/addwater/addwater/main.py", line 63, in __init__
    self.backends = self.construct_backends()
                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/share/addwater/addwater/main.py", line 133, in construct_backends
    ff_app_detail = FirefoxAppDetails()
  File "/usr/share/addwater/addwater/apps/firefox/firefox_details.py", line 94, in __init__
    self.set_data_path(available_paths[0]["path"])
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range
2

Both issues are connected.

As from Firefox 147 on Linux, profile and other directories have been changed (mainly) to reside under the ~/.config/ heirarchy instead of ~/.mozilla. This is a generally seamless change, however, there may be applications (such as “Add Water” that you mentioned) that have hard-coded paths, for example; only a guess, as I have no idea what this “AddWater” might be.

This looks to be a path that you have previously set in AddWater – that being the case, you should probably change it to the correct path – if the application was installed via the AUR, you might simply need to rebuild it.

I suggest deleting ~/.cache firstly, to see if that makes a difference – this must be done without being logged into the GUI – logout, and login via a TTY – then delete ~/.cache and reboot.

Let us know if the issue persists after that.

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Clearing .cache didn’t work, I did it the way you said

Add Water ships with Manjaro by default and is the installer for the libadwaita theme for Firefox. Actually I managed to fix it by:

mkdir -p ~/.mozilla
ln -s ~/.config/mozilla/firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox

Let’s see if the app devs will update it to work out of the box.

About Firefox, I tried going to about:support, clicking “Refresh Firefox”, “Clear startup cache”, I even deleted manjaro-browser-settings, but the home page still breaks after opening and closing a few tabs/windows.

Update: Reinstalling Firefox fixed it, probably so it can start without manjaro-browser-settings. Maybe the issue is in that package, since I’m not getting this problem on other Arch distros

4

The AddWater developer is aware: