[Alpine-info] Firefox, snap and /tmp

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Bret Busby via Alpine-info wrote:


> On 4/6/24 17:52, Kjell Rönnmark via Alpine-info wrote:

>> Hi,

>> 

>> Have you noticed that the snap version of Firefox in Ubuntu cannot access 

>> /tmp?

>> See 

>> https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/firefox-snap-no-access-to-gvfs-and-tmp/27253

>> 

>> As far as I understand, alpine copies attached html files to /tmp, and I 

>> have not

>> found an easy way to change this (although I can work around it with a 

>> small script).

>> 

>> Can can this issue be handled within alpine i a simple way?

>> 

>> Best wishes,

>> 

>> Kjell

>

> Try using Linux Mint instead of Ubuntu.


... or the Firefox built by Mozilla for Debian and Ubuntu:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux?utm_source=www.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=firefox-download-thanks#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions

I have been using the .tar.* builds which have an option in "help"
to update themselves.
I also see that Mozilla now offer a Debian/Ubuntu repo,
though apt seems to choose the snap version over the mozilla one,
even after
 	sudo apt install firefox/mozilla

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