non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Keith]

On 4/27/23 3:39 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:17:20 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 4/27/23 12:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>>
>>> At Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:45:29 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>> Am Donnerstag, dem 27.04.2023 um 17:58 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As others have said, I use Firefox snap and I've had no problem
>>>>>> opening
>>>>>> "random local HTML files."ÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't open local HTML files that reside outside of my home
>>>>> directory (and
>>>>> its subdirectories). I can't open, for instance, something in
>>>>> /usr/local/...
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you open files outside, or are you just referring to files in
>>>>> your home
>>>>> directory?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not an enemy of Snap, but this sucks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> while you will surely not be able to open all html files from random
>>>> places, the typical documentation paths are allowed to firefox ...ÂÂ
>>>
>>> What does "typical documentation paths" mean?  I have many file systems on my
>>> system, almost none are "typical".  I might have need of opening almost any
>>> sort of file on these file systems, including HTML files with FF.  If the snap
>>> version of FF is limited to only "typical documentation paths" (whatever that
>>> means), it is not usable by me (quite aside for its other problems).
>>>
>>
>> List of permitted documentation paths for the system-packages-doc
>> interface for Firefox, Chromium, and any other snap that utilizes it:
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/{,**} r,
>> /usr/share/cups/doc-root/{,**} r,
>> /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/{,**} r,
>> /usr/share/gtk-doc/{,**} r,
>> /usr/share/libreoffice/help/{,**} r,
>> /usr/share/xubuntu-docs/{,**} r,
>>
>> If your html files reside under one of the above system directories, you
>> should be able to view them.
> 
> The thing is, as a *software developer* who actually creates HTML
> documentation, I need to be able to check those HTML files for correctness.
> Sometimes I build software at locations other than my /home directory and
> don't want to "install" test copies in system directories.  Being unable to
> access these files with a web browser is a problem.
> 
> Also, sometimes I install software in non-standard places (for various
> reasons), and some software (JMRI for example) uses the "default browser" to
> display its help files.  This would be another problem for the snap version of
> FF.  As I said elsewhere, I don't have any problem with snap itself, just with
> the snap incarnation of FF, with its limitations as to where it can access
> HTML files being one of several issues I have with it.
> 
>>

Sure, it's a valid concern. See my reply to Tommy Trussell post for a 
possible solution.

-- 
Keith