How to clean Firefox 106.0.1 Ubuntu Snap
I recent migrated from Ubuntu Mate 20.04 to 22.04, now I see that Firefox come from snap (not form .deb package). I find that bleachbit is no more capable to clean Firefox cache and I find a tricky situation: Firefox suggest me to autocomplete fields like account or username, amount (in home banking web page) and others, but I disabled the auto complete and the suggestions I can see are even from months ago and I never see that suggestions when I was using 20.04 because bleachbit was cleaning it weekly. Now the fact is that represent a privacy problem for me. How can I fix this problem?
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I am not familiar with snap. On my Firefox for Linux I can use Clear Recent History (ctl+shft+del) and select Form & Search history for the time range I want to clear (you probably want 'Everything' as the "time range").
Okulungisiwe ngu Terry
You can switch to Firefox from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.
Terry said
I am not familiar with snap. On my Firefox for Linux I can use Clear Recent History (ctl+shft+del) and select Form & Search history for the time range I want to clear (you probably want 'Everything' as the "time range").
Hi Terry, thx for your reply. I Know that I can clean everything from the Firefox menu, but the fact is that bleachbit cleans my system automatically once per week, I don't want to do it manually. I think that the problem is in where the cookies and other stuff are stored or the privileges assigned to those folder/files.
cor-el said
You can switch to Firefox from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.
Hi cor-el, thx for your reply.
I'll try it, but I need to understand if installing from there I'll receive updates automatically, otherwise I'll need a repos. I'm going to check.
The profile used by the snap version is in a different location and not in ~/.mozilla.
- ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default
Due to too much problem with the snap install version I reinstalled Firefox from Launchpad PPA, now it is working 99%. I'll open other question for 1% remaining.
n the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences. Click the menu button. and select Settings. Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section. Click the Clear Data… button. The Clear Data dialog will appear. Click Clear.
This may help.