Firedragon default profile breaks

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Firedragon default profile breaks

When I open a profile that is set as default, I get this banner at the top saying that it’s in use by some other application. This doesn’t happen with profiles that aren’t the default.

With this, several things seems to break:

  • Browser history stops updating
  • Any extensions stop remembering and kind of break
    • Unhook (youtube declutter extension) seems to constantly reset itself and turn itself off
    • Sideberry (vertical tabs sidebar) just doesn’t load
    • other extensions show signs of not working
  • address bar url autocomplete stops working

I tried making new profiles and duplicating my current setup, but doesn’t seem to help. This only seems to apply whatever profile is selected as default, any non-default profile I launch is fine and works great.

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garuda-inxi:

System:
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    avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
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  Desktop: Hyprland v: 0.39.1-141-g40201a76 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
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  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20R5A000US v: SDK0J40700 WIN serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20R5_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad L13 Yoga uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: R15ET47W (1.28 ) date: 01/12/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.3 Wh (64.8%) condition: 43.7/46.0 Wh (95.0%) power: 8.5 W volts: 15.6
    min: 15.4 model: SMP 5B10W13933 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: discharging cycles: 371
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-10210U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check
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    stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xFA
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Graphics:
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    arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 13d3:56a6 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 compositor: Hyprland
    v: 0.39.1-141-g40201a76 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris
    gpu: i915 display-ID: 1
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast
    surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: gbm
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.6-arch1.2 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) device-ID: 8086:9b41
    memory: 7.17 GiB unified: yes
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 7 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel UHD Graphics (CML
    GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 24.0.6-arch1.2 device-ID: 8086:9b41 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
    device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe
    v: 24.0.6-arch1.2 (LLVM 17.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.9-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:0d4f class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: MABGaruda state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
  Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
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Drives:
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  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
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Partition:
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    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 931.22 GiB (100.00%) used: 330.99 GiB (35.5%)
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    fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
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Sensors:
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  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
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  Processes: 271 Power: uptime: 4m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 0
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    services: power-profiles-daemon, thermald, upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Packages: 1905 pm: pacman pkgs: 1895 libs: 521 tools: octopi,pacseek,paru,yay pm: flatpak
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    inxi: 3.3.34
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
  System install date:     2023-09-22
  Last full system update: 2024-05-04
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
  Windows dual boot:       no
  Failed units:            nmb.service

Other thing, this issue only started after the new firedragon profile migration and update

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When was that?
For me the definition of “new Firedragon profile migration and update” means when we switched from Librewolf-based to Floorp-based, a few months ago.

That’s interesting. I wonder if the DE has anything to do in this.

Can you confirm you have no other Firedragon instance running (a reboot would make sure of that)?

What does this say?

ls ~/.firedragon/
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When was that?

I think it was a bit after Floorp migration? Initially with Floorp it was fine for a while, but then an update about maybe 3 weeks ago ish broke it for me? I’m sorry if I can’t remember this too well, should’ve reported it sooner.

Hyprland

I’m doing a bit of a weird thing, running both Hyprland and Plasma. Right now as I’m writing this, I’m back on Plasma, but the issue seems to affect both DEs.

Here’s the firedragon folder:

drwx------   - mab  6 May 13:08  firefox-mpris
lrwxrwxrwx   - mab  4 May 15:19  l05k4jwp.default -> /run/user/1000/psd/mab-firedragon-l05k4jwp.default
drwx------   - mab  4 May 18:24  l05k4jwp.default-backup
drwx------   - mab  1 May 02:18  l05k4jwp.default-backup-crashrecovery-20240501_023446
lrwxrwxrwx   - mab  4 May 15:19  we6sytc7.default-release -> /run/user/1000/psd/mab-firedragon-we6sytc7.default-release
drwx------   - mab  6 May 12:52  we6sytc7.default-release-backup
drwx------   - mab  1 May 02:24  we6sytc7.default-release-backup-crashrecovery-20240501_023446
.rw-r--r-- 100 mab  1 May 03:29  installs.ini
.rw-r--r-- 400 mab  1 May 03:29  profiles.ini

When I tried making a new profile, I also tried creating one at a custom directory

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which looks like this:

lrwxrwxrwx - mab  4 May 15:19  mab3 -> /run/user/1000/psd/mab-firedragon-mab3
drwxr-xr-x - mab  4 May 18:24  mab3-backup
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In the default FD folder (~/.firedragon) what do you get with

cat ~/.firedragon/installs.ini
cat ~/.firedragon/profiles.ini
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File: /home/mab/.firedragon/installs.ini
[E60E74956B9A3361]
Default=/home/mab/Applications/Custom/Browser-Profiles/Firedragon/mab3
Locked=1

File: /home/mab/.firedragon/profiles.ini
[InstallE60E74956B9A3361]
Default=/home/mab/Applications/Custom/Browser-Profiles/Firedragon/mab3
Locked=1

[Profile1]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=l05k4jwp.default
Default=1

[Profile0]
Name=default-release
IsRelative=1
Path=we6sytc7.default-release

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

[Profile2]
Name=mab3
IsRelative=0
Path=/home/mab/Applications/Custom/Browser-Profiles/Firedragon/mab3
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The files look good, but I question the full path here, maybe due to your non-std path location.

Let’s keep it simple, what if you replace installs.ini with:

[E60E74956B9A3361]
Default=l05k4jwp.default
Locked=1

and profiles.ini with:

[InstallE60E74956B9A3361]
Default=l05k4jwp.default
Locked=1

[Profile1]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=l05k4jwp.default
Default=1

[Profile0]
Name=default-release
IsRelative=1
Path=we6sytc7.default-release

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

Before replacing, delete your mab3 profile using Firedragon -P.
Take backups of both files before deleting profile and replacing files.

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Went ahead and change the config files as you suggested, still the same error :frowning:

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Thanks btw so much for all your help so far!

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Well that really sucks!

Let’s try more devastating measures. After taking backups of all your important files like bookmarks, settings, etc., could you uninstall FD and delete everything related to it on your system?

Mostly a

rm -rf ~/.firedragon
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/firedragon

Reboot
Login into Plasma
Install FD
From Terminal firedragon -P
Load the default profile and see if you get the error. If you do get it, then please post the output of everything from Terminal following firedragon -P.

This starts to get really awkward, I always some in mind the corrupted files issue, normally a full clean up like this and reinstall should take care of that.