Can't layer firefox

General
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On Aurora-DX 40.20240427.0

I can’t seem to layer Firefox with rpm-ostree, since it’s claimed to be present in a base image, but… not really? It’s not in path, there are no desktop files, and looking around the system it just doesn’t seem to be present. I don’t want to use the Flatpak version because it breaks 1password’s native messaging (NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · Issue #655 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal · GitHub).

Whenever I try to add it, I get:

Inactive requests:
firefox (already provided by firefox-125.0.2-1.fc40.x86_64)

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This is one of the rough points of rpm-ostree. Removed packages in a lower layer cannot be reenabled.

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I use the firefox extension and I’m not using the native app until the native portal thing is fixed: 1Password: Password Manager – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

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This works okay, but it gets a bit tedious once you start using more than one profile. Probably just going to layer another browser. But good to know that it’s not just me failing to grasp rpm-ostree (just a UX issue).

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… and nevermind, I seem to have gotten it to work somehow? The last update seemed to have included it now.

State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx:latest
                   Digest: sha256:eb2d2a5c5d246e08f3544bb6863060376232b8d818ce0ef6c33b64dcd6fb9234
                  Version: 40.20240428.0 (2024-04-29T02:07:21Z)
          LayeredPackages: 1password 1password-cli firefox syncthing

❯ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

Just the desktop files missing. I’d love to figure out how to reproduce this.

Edit: And it promptly got removed in the next transactions. What the heck is going on?!

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I also cannot get Firefox installed via rpm-ostree.

> rpm-ostree status -vb
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
BootedDeployment:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora:gts (index: 0)
                   Digest: sha256:dca74c86e3463637b076de59f81ebaf5b67a7ed0078d806cd85a078964325aac
                  Version: 39.20240509.0 (2024-05-09T16:52:09Z)
               BaseCommit: 061262ff752082296c0b5f24de39c6fc7dc3b510d1c07381ba1d9a74fea72527
                   Commit: 85ba907f9b29a3786b9896b5b0bb7f405ec1ba1e0b555e87faa33abfb4b33165
                           ├─ 1password (2024-05-01T09:40:06Z)
                           ├─ fedora (2023-11-01T00:12:39Z)
                           ├─ google-chrome (2024-05-09T21:06:21Z)
                           ├─ rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver (2024-05-02T14:37:09Z)
                           ├─ rpmfusion-nonfree-steam (2024-04-20T13:10:44Z)
                           ├─ updates (2024-05-09T01:56:28Z)
                           └─ updates-archive (2024-05-10T01:47:58Z)
                   Staged: no
                StateRoot: default
         InactiveRequests: firefox
          LayeredPackages: 1password pipx snapper xlsclients

I would really prefer not using the Firefox flatpak. Because I want it to properly communicate with 1password, keepassxc and expressvpn via extensions.