firefox snap still broken in a VNC session

[Jeffery Small]

Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at couriermta.com> writes:

>The stock workaround of manually setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is the
>stock recipe for getting the firefox snap working in a VNC session, see
>https://askubuntu.com/questions/1452155/

>But I just discovered that this /still/ doesn't fix everything. Although
>the Firefox snap now starts, "Save Page As" and "Open File" doesn't do
>anything, the system file open/save dialogs quietly don't open, without
>giving any error message. All other popups seem to work, except these two.

>Has anyone gotten this working?

Also, the snap version of Firefox will not work at all if your HOME directory
is not located under /home.  So far as I was able to determine, this will
likely never get fixed.

Just say no to snap packages.