non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Robert Heller]

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.

> 

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