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
