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Firefox snap in Jammy cannot save at all: Can't open portal file chooser: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop was not provided by any .service files

Asked by David Gerard

Firefox 99.0.1 in Jammy (22.04). Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu canonical-002 1.0

Firefox cannot save pages by any means - ctrl-S, Save Page As, etc.

I started Firefox from a terminal, and attempting to save gets an error like this:

(firefox:373643): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:34:52.248: Can't open portal file chooser: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop was not provided by any .service files

The bug manifests identically in Safe Mode.

This bug severely hampers Firefox's usability as a browser.

I tried filing this as a bug report, but Launchpad wouldn't let me.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Does it work after executing the command
sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal
?

source: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/firefox-snap-77-cannot-download-anything/18167

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David Gerard (dgerard) said : 		#2

Just came here to report that the fix was indeed:

sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

now to file this as a bug on Xubuntu 22.04 :-)

thank you!

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David Gerard (dgerard) said : 		#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Lancillotto (antonio-petricca) said : 		#4

It fixed the issue for me.

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Brian Fiedler (brian-fiedler) said : 		#5

sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal

worked for me