non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Freitag, dem 28.04.2023 um 14:34 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, dem 28.04.2023 um 11:46 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> > 
> > What is this restriction to typical documentation paths supposed to
> > be good
> > for? Other than being an annoyance? :->
> 
> ask me again when some website trojan managed to abuse one of the
> various undisclosed mozjs security bugs to encrypt your disk and you
> dont know where to get the bitcoin to to send to the ransomware
> developers to recover your data :)

I have an offline backup.  :)

> this is indeed plain prevention to not end up in similar situations
> your windows user friends end up in ... just like you do not leave your
> door open and unlocked when expecting an amazon delivery while not at
> home but instead agree on a drop-off place with the delivery person ...
> 
> browsers are simply one of the biggest security threats to your system
> that exist, security policies do at least add some security here ...

Okay, you win.

> > > seems to me that /usr/local/doc and man should be definitely in the
> > > permitted list, would you mind filing a bug about this so someone
> > > can
> > > work on adding it ? 
> > 
> > I don't have /usr/local/doc. And what I want is no restriction at
> > all.
> 
> yeah, sorry, that should have been /usr/local/share/doc (for any
> documentation third party SW would install in html form) 
> 
> note that the majority of users will simply not abuse a browser as a
> file manager but simply use the software for its purpose and just
> browse the web with it ...

I'm not intending to use it as a file manager. I only want to be able to
display local HTML pages, in the places in which they end up on my
system. Especially in subdirectories of /usr/local. Right now, I'm using an
other browser (Brave) for places which are blocked in Firefox. 

Cheers,
Volker
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