[Alpine-info] Firefox, snap and /tmp

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2024, Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info wrote:


> 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,


... which seems to work fine ...


> though apt seems to choose the snap version over the mozilla one,

> even after

> 	sudo apt install firefox/mozilla


... as long as you follow the instructions given correctly.
I failed to do that.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk