[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
also affects me -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
Redundant comment: see above. Perhaps distributing this as a snap isn't as great an idea as it must have once seemed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
Redundant comment: see above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
I would just like to add another angry, frustrated, and probably redundant comment: I've been using Ubuntu since 2005, after switching from Debian because Ubuntu worked better out of the box for basic things like WiFi or watching videos. Over the years I've been very happy with Ubuntu, but now several times in the last few years I'm running into the problems caused by permissions in Snap (in the past for files in /tmp with pdftk, and now for files in ~/. with Firefox). The answer always seems to be that the brokenness is "by design", but I don't understand why making something broken "by design" makes it okay: it's still broken, it's still a regression. And then there doesn't seem to be any way to simply disable the security mechanisms that are breaking these Snap packaged apps (e.g. here the solution, apparently, is to install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA as a regular .deb). I just want the Snap apps to be able to read files in /tmp and ~/.. Why is this so hard? Also, not only are these permission errors super annoying, they're also very confusing. They happen rarely, so I always seem to get confused and go through the same process: 1) get permission error about some file. 2) open terminal and check permissions of file: I have read access. 3) attempt to access file again from app and get same permission error. 4) Google the problem and find that it's caused by broken Snap permissions, where I didn't even know the app in question was managed by Snap (why would I, I used apt to install it ...). Snapcraft: more like "crap snaf'd" :/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
I can't open local html documentation in my home folder. While I understand the safety benefits of not giving your internet browser access to your personal files and I think it's a good thing ubuntu thinks about these issues firefox is also the main help browser on my system. There should be a way to launch an unconfined firefox to browse local documentation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: r-cran-plotly (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
This also breaks r-cran-plotly because it places the plots as html files in /tmp and tries to open them with firefox. ** Also affects: r-cran-plotly (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
This is a severe regression that absolutely needs to be fixed ASAP. There are several tools and applications for various purposes produce HTML documentation or reports, that cannot be opened in Firefox. For example: - Intel Advisor: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/advisor/user-guide/2023-0/work-with-standalone-html-reports.html - ARM performance reports: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/101137/1912/Interpreting- performance-reports There are tons of other software that produce similar HTML reports (Autodesk Nastran, Comsol, ...) As a developer, I reach into multiple other problems: - I cannot access Sphinx or Doxygen generated HTML documentation - Cython html annotations are not possible to access All of the mentioned HTML files are residing in NFS-mounted folders that lie outside the users home directory, which I cannot access from the Snap Firefox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
I can't open certain e-mail-attachments which are important to me and my work, because Thunderbird places them in /tmp/pid-9/ and opens them with my default browser. I first thought, this should be easily fixable -- but no, there seems not to be a workaround (other than manually installing Firefox). Seriously?!? I wonder: What is going on in your minds?!? I'm using Kubuntu since it exists, but this is yet one more awkward thing slowly pushing me back to the search for another distro. It's one of the most common things to open an HTML-file in the /tmp/ -- being a software-developer I did this myself pretty often -- and you break such basic functionality and say "it's by design". Really?!? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
I have exactly the same problem that Mario (mario-gleirscher) reported on 2022-11-17. My Java IDE is Apache Netbeans, and if, for example, I want to look at the documentation for the Pattern class, it tries, and fails, to load the file "file:///usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk- amd64/docs/api/java.base/java/util/regex/Pattern.html". I understand that this is a design feature of Snap. However, it is also causing a serious regression in multiple pieces of widely used software. It's just NOT OK to break so much stuff, and to inconvenience so many people, over a packaging change. Please fix this. There is no security issue in providing read-only access to documentation files. [Edit: I see that firefox has a "firefox:system-packages-doc" connection, which allows access to /usr/share/doc. That's a step in the right direction, unfortunately that's incompatible with the way that Ubuntu manages Java releases.] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
I am also affected when using `kde-open5 fish://hostname/myfile.html` that transparantly opens over ssh and saves temp file under .config. Switching to deb package because of this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
This is still broken on the Firefox 108 snap. (I have a similar use case: I'd like to local local copies of documentation from `rustup doc` and other sources.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
This also breaks `rustup doc` for the same reason. Running `snap connections firefox` I can see `personal-files` is already enabled. It's trying to load: /home/malachi/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/share/doc/rust/html/index.html but gets access denied. My Chrome is not loading via snap; so I can get around it by using Chrome instead of Firefox and loading the url myself instead of relying on the `rustup` tool. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
I can only second much what has been said. My Java IDE wants to open local Java API doc with my browser (Firefox in that case), and instead of opening the local doc, it shows me an error message because "file://" is pointing to a Snap sandbox or something alike and not to the root filesystem. This seems to indicate a major design flaw of the Firefox snap. I assume there was a good reason for the Firefox team to switch to snap. However, a huge disadvantage of using Snap for Firefox is that it captured my Firefox profile from my home folder, stored it in the snap directory, and the removal of the snap package (because of the above reason) now all of a sudden also removes my profile, even without using --purge. This is dangerous! Overall, snap or the Firefox snap seems to do a bad job in keeping apps and settings separated. Isn't the latter a really useful best practice in many Linuxes? I wonder why this important principle or useful tradition has been broken here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Linux-traipu] [Bug 1972762] Re: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly.
This bug breaks any application that uses firefox to open local files in /tmp for display. I'd politely suggest that breaking this sort of widely supported and used functionality for no clear benefit or advantage is perhaps not the best design choice. This is especially true when users can simply go out and download other versions that do support this functionality but may suffer from not being regularly and automatically updated. If the issue is security then having an about:config option to pop up a window for permission to open local files that defaults to ON might be a better solution which leaves warnings and functionality in the hands of the user (the feature could be turned off in settings or by accessing about:config) but defaults to a more secure option for those that will likely never intentionally open local files. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762 Title: Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working correctly. Status in Chromium Browser: New Status in Mozilla Firefox: New Status in snapd: New Bug description: Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result. * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp) * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives) * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration) Other things not working: * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc) * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1972762/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
