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Ghostery Browser on Linux (installer and Linux-specific documentation)
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Ghostery Browser Flatpak: opening links from Desktop apps fails if set to default application #8

Open philipp-classen opened 2 months ago

philipp-classen commented 2 months ago

Reproduced on Ubuntu 22.04 (MATE).

  1. Install Ghostery Browser as Flatpak image.

  2. Configure it as the preferred application (Menu -> Preferred application -> Web Browser: Ghostery Private Browser) config

  3. Open a terminal and type "https://example.com/". Right-click and open link.

  4. Results in the "Ghostery is already running" error error

The expectation would be that the link is opened in the Ghostery Browser.

philipp-classen commented 2 months ago

This is the Flatpak configuration: https://github.com/flathub/com.ghostery.browser/

It has been derived directly from the LibreWolf project: https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.librewolf-community

LibreWolf works and the Ghostery Browser does not. Yet, I was not able to spot a relevant difference in the setup. My best guess is that the Ghostery Browser fails to detect the existing running process at startup.