firefox snap still broken in a VNC session

[Jeffery Small]

In local.ubuntu.users you write:

>On Sat, 2024-09-28 at 21:36 +0000, Jeffery Small wrote:
>> Also, the snap version of Firefox will not work at all if your HOME
>> directory is not located under /home.

>Does "echo $HOME" return the correct path, e.g. "/foo/bar"?

>When running a session as user with the home "/home/my_user" and in that
>session I launch "xhost +" and "gksudo -u bar sylpheed", then for the
>user with the home "/foo/bar" spam filtering doesn't work with sylpheed.
>This is with no snaps involved on Arch Linux and I expect that such
>things do happen, due to privilege issues.

>Does the snap version of Firefox really ignore the path provided by
>$HOME or could it be another issue?

It was a long time ago that I attempted to use the snap version of Firefox
and, besides being incredible slow, I'm not sure what the core problem
was, but I believe that it was some baked-in security that could not be
overcome.  There was a long running bug thread where people who had home
directories not directly under /home (e.g., /home/<dirname>/<myhome>) also
had problems and there was talk of making this work, but it seemed pretty
clear to me that being completely outside /home was not something that
would be fixed.

I've been working with UNIX since 1981, long before Linux and /home were
ever a twinkle in someone's eyes, and I resent companies like Canonical
trying to force stuff like this upon us.  This is a complete disregard
of the original UNIX design philosophy and more like something Microsoft
thinks it should get away with.

Regards,
--
Jeff