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Cannot open Dropbox website through Linux client
Similarly to the issue described here, on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 with the dropbox client recently installed, by the time I press the button on the app to say "Open the Dropbox site", the browser opens a new window with a local file in the url starting with tmp which can't resolve in a proper site.
The issue happens in both Firefox and Chromium.
How can this be solved?
Uninstalling the snap version (sudo snap remove firefox) and installing the traditional version via `sudo apt-get install firefox` resolved the problem.
The xdg-mime query default text/html now returns the expected firefox.desktop which you Здравко initially flagged as suspicious.
What a pain 🙂
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Здравкоbelieve me that I'm as puzzled as you are .... and I doubled checked right now for possible mistakes due to the late hour when I answered.
But both the folders are technically pointing to the same location, but they don't have the same content.
It looks like the /tmp/ folder Firefox is saving is symbolic link to somewhere, that's me guessing here. Although there is not a chance to use the CTRL+L trick to show the full path as it happens in Nautilus.
But see below the Fireforx autocompletion when I ask for the /tmp/ folder. A bunch of files.
Whereas, below the content of the /tmp folder from Nautilus
The test file date is Wednesday, when I moved there manually.
And here we go ... Firefox was installed with Snap... and has a result it creates some kind of shims for the temporary folder.
That's where the content is. I start to believe this Snap is more a pain than a solution.
Uninstalling the snap version (sudo snap remove firefox) and installing the traditional version via `sudo apt-get install firefox` resolved the problem.
The xdg-mime query default text/html now returns the expected firefox.desktop which you Здравко initially flagged as suspicious.
What a pain 🙂
