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This is probably a really simple fix, but I cannot for the life of me get emoji to work in any browser (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi) on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04. I can bring up the picker with Ctrl+Alt+E and Ctrl+. in applications such as Text Editor, but not in the applications where I actually use emoji. There is no option to insert them with a right click contextual menu, either.

I've tried to resolve this by:

  1. installing the Emote snap from Tom Watsom
  2. removing and re-installing the fonts-noto-color-emoji package
  3. changing my keyboard to an English layout (it's Japanese by default)
  4. giving my dog a much-needed bath

As none of this has worked, I'm clearly missing something ...

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    You won’t see the ‘Insert Emoji’ option in the context menus of non-GTK apps, like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or LibreOffice. [source](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/use-emoji-linux-ubuntu-apps) – graham Dec 22 '20 at 06:49

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  • GNOME Epiphany (the Linux port of Safari) is currently the only web browser that supports the native emoji picker. You can install it via Snap or Flatpak.

    Epiphany running under OpenSUSE Budgie, demonstrating the emoji picker

  • Alternatively, there are extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Opera that add an emoji picker to the toolbar.

    Emoji picker extension for Firefox

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  • It's not too often that I add extensions to browsers, but this certainly gets the job done –  Feb 18 '21 at 00:43