non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Carsten Agger]

On 4/30/23 18:39, Volker Wysk wrote:
>
>> how would he do that unless he runs his firefox as root he will by
>> default not have write permissions to anyting in /usr ?
> Acquiring write permissions, or ownership, of things somewhere under
> /usr/local isn't far-fetched at all. You don't have by default, but you can
> easily acquire them, when you have root-access.
>
> In my case, I often have the ownership of things in /usr/local. Especially
> in /usr/local/src. For instace, I have a markdown-encoded README.md, and
> compile it to READLE.html. That done, we right away have a case where
> Firefox refuses to work.


The best solution might be to install Firefox ESR, if you're happy with 
that.

It's available through a PPA as described here: 
https://itsfoss.com/firefox-esr-ubuntu/

And then you can throw away the snap :)