I take advantage of the presence of all Canonical people here to ask when browsers snaps (Chromium, FF) will allow to use GNOME Integration add-on which make it possible to install extensions?
I know it’s somewhat off-topic but that point makes an user unable to install any extension in a cool way… (Is there an easy way I don’t know except website? There was Tweak Tool & Ubuntu Software. RIP.)
This question has been asked some time ago, but without success.
confined access to /usr/share is fine as long as the snap uses the desktop portal as a file picker (the portals do copy files around transparently into a place where the snapped app can accesss them while the UI shows you the actual path) …
as ken said above already, it looks like firefox used the portal when it worked, there are no security issues here, rather bugs with the xdg-desktop-portal installation on your system or with the way firefox uses them.
Ok, I just have found why FF 87 snap has issues and not FF 86…
I know that some of you already know this BR but, for the sake of Firefox, it allows to simply enter: DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox
in a terminal while waiting for a proper fix.
Thanks @fthx
I can confirm that this resolves the issue of the bookmark menu not working. However, since I also have the firefox deb version installed, I found that I had to close out of the .deb version completely and enter the following into terminal:
DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox
this also leaves the terminal command open until you close firefox. Interesting that if the .deb version of firefox is open, the above command will open another .deb firefox.
this has nothing to do with the packaging system, it is an internal “feature” of firefox since years … before this became a default you had to call “firefox --remote” to get this behaviour and a simple “firefox” always opened a new window.
I use this old thread, I think it could alert some useful people.
I do use Focal, Wayland session, and the upcoming Firefox 89.
Here are the points that make FF snap quality still problematic, at the moment:
cannot open /usr folder, e.g.
cannot move bookmarks (maybe caused by the new UI)
media window is not created with respect to previous settings (bottom right, size) and is not above all windows (have to set it manually)
cannot open links in FF from Thunderbird when FF is already open
Only point #2 is new. So, I understand every dev concerns but from an user POV, it’s quite annoying. So, I maintain, since FF is a main software for Ubuntu, that maybe Mozilla should revert to previous FF86’s X11 back end before some issues have been cleared.