Error when browsers are installed to a custom directory

[Yolo390]

Hey !

My Brave browser is installed with snap store on Ubuntu 22.04.

Bookmarks folder with snap is a bit different: /home/{user}/snap/brave/current/.config/BraveSofware/Brave-Browser/Default/Bookmarks

So I created a symlink to /home/{user}/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Bookmarks

But I got this error: bad argument #1 to 'decode' (string expected, got nil)

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Did I miss something ?

Thanks !

[dhruvmanila]

related: #16

For now, the simplest solution would be to resolve the symlink to the actual file on disk and read that instead. But, I would rather prefer to implement a long term solution of using XDG based directories along with user provided directories.

[dhruvmanila]

@Flo-Slv Hey, can you please update the extension to the latest commit and try again with debug = true config parameter? Provide the output.

[dhruvmanila]

Also, the way file is read in lua, it seems that the symlinks are resolved by it, so this problem shouldn't rise. There must be something else which is going on. Can you try this code by substituting the path to any symlink which points to a file containing some content?

local path = '/path/to/symlink'

local file, err = io.open(path, 'r')
if not file then
  return print(err)
end

local content = file:read '*a'
file:close()
print(content)

[Yolo390]

I just updated plugins with :PackerSync and now it's working ! Thanks !

I don't really know what's happened... you are right, with symlinks it's working great.

But I still have an issue but with... firefox now

defs.lua:31: libsqlite3.so cannot open shared object file No such file or directory

Here is the screenshot

Do I need to create an symlink too ? since in Ubuntu 22.04, Firefox is installed via snapstore

[dhruvmanila]

This would probably be because the dependencies weren't installed correctly, I'm not really sure. Can you look at https://github.com/kkharji/sqlite.lua and install it as mentioned in it's README with all the C dependencies? If not, this issue needs to be reported in that repository.

[Yolo390]

I thought only tami5/sqlite.lua was required. My bad, sorry !

So I installed kkharji/sqlite.lua too and give me a new error

defs.lua:683: sqlite.lua counldn't connect to sql database. ERR: unable to open database file 

Do I need to configure something else with sqlite3 ? Thanks 🙏🏼

[dhruvmanila]

They both are the same repository, the username was changed.

since in Ubuntu 22.04, Firefox is installed via snapstore

Ah, yes. This is the problem. I think the extension should've errored before trying to open the database file as I'm getting the profile information from the profiles.ini file stored in the default Firefox config directory.

Can you check if the config directory is present? Location:

https://github.com/dhruvmanila/telescope-bookmarks.nvim/blob/0368bc390b25329f86b2a1bc83fa621ce921d7c6/lua/telescope/_extensions/bookmarks/firefox.lua#L12-L16

Also, sorry to ask you again, but please update the extension and share the output. I can reproduce the message on my system only if there is a profile directory but the database file is absent.

[Yolo390]

Thanks for your fast reply !

Here is the debug output

Firefox bookmarks database file is not present in the profile director: /home/floslv/.mozilla/firefox/06lhu944.default/places.sqlite

So I confirm I have a folder called /home/floslv/.mozilla/firefox/

ls /home/floslv/.mozilla/firefox/

06lhu944.default   0ojxz66h.default-release  'Crash Reports'   installs.ini  'Pending Pings'   profiles.ini

Here is my profiles.ini

[Install4F96D1932A9F858E]
Default=0ojxz66h.default-release
Locked=1

[Profile1]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=06lhu944.default
Default=1

[Profile0]
Name=default-release
IsRelative=1
Path=0ojxz66h.default-release

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

Inside 06lhu944.default folder, there is only one file times.json.

There is no places.sqlite

Inside 0ojxz66h.default-release, there is places.sqlite but it's not my bookmarks, only default ones.

When I search on my files system for places.sqlite, the only return it's for 0ojxz66h.default-release, nothing for 06lhu944.default....

[Yolo390]

I found where my Firefox bookmarks are stored
/home/floslv/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/0ojxz66h.default-release/places.sqlite

I just did a symlink from here to /home/floslv/.mozilla/firefox/06lhu944.default/

It's working like a charm now !

[dhruvmanila]

It's working like a charm now !

Good to know that! I think there should be a better solution to this problem.

Continuing the discussion in #16 (or a new issue?)