Apps status is installed, but nothing in the desktop menu

[eiger3970]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi-Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi-Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

Firefox lost all bookmarks on desktop and phone, so trying data recovery from Chrome or Brave

Description

Simply need to use browser Chrome, Chromium or Brave.
Pi-Apps -> Installed -> Brave and Chromium show.
Don't know how to run them as they're not in the desktop menu bar?

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

rapi5  raspberrypi  ~  $  ~/pi-apps/api get_device_info
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
OS architecture: 64-bit
Last updated Pi-Apps on: 10/06/2025
Latest Pi-Apps version: 10/07/2025
Kernel: aarch64 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-2712
Device model: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
SOC identifier: bcm2712
Machine-id (hashed): 1afdeb63510becac5f924adc71d29433a4951c44
Serial-number (hashed): d61eefe48f9b64d5832f7b3c6e0490f42907e84d
Cpu name: Cortex-A76
Ram size: 8.06 GB
Raspberry Pi OS image version: 2024-11-19
Language: en_US.UTF-8

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

[Botspot]

Did these apps successfully install? Were there errors? Try running these apps (Chromium and Brave) in the terminal. For all apps, Pi-Apps has instructions for how to do so.

Regarding firefox bookmarks recovery, you may want to research how they are stored and then try to inspect the ~/.config/firefox directory yourself.

[eiger3970]

Yes, these app were successfully installed, used and deleted.
Seems like pi-apps is not registering the deletion. The deletion may have been buggy IIRC so I overrode the Pi-Apps deletion process with some terminal code.