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Firefox wasn't opening on Kubuntu for me. When I ran it via terminal I got the following error.

Error: not connected to gnome-3-38-2004 content interface.

  1. Why does Firefox depends on Gnome on Kubuntu?
  2. Why doesn't it gets installed as Firefox dependency?

I am on fresh install of Kubuntu 23.04.

Sudhir Singh Khanger
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  1. Firefox Snap is packaged to use the GTK toolkit, which is why it requires gnome components.

  2. That that component is not installed as Firefox dependency must have been a glitch during installation. Else, it might be a packaging issue, but that seems unlikely to me: in that case the issue would have been identified and resolved quickly.

vanadium
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  • It certainly doesn't seem to be a glitch because of you search this issue you will find lots of posts like this. I nuked Snap folder and then installed Firefox again. So maybe it is because of that but certainly not a promising start for 23.04. – Sudhir Singh Khanger Apr 27 '23 at 16:52
  • Please, see also this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1462400/removing-old-and-unneeded-snaps#comment2560054_1462406 – FedKad Apr 27 '23 at 19:48
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    @FedKad, thanks. So yes, it could be more than an occasional glitch: it could be a bug. – vanadium Apr 28 '23 at 07:19