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Guerlando OCs
Asked: 2020-11-18 17:22:26 +0800 CST

How to make firefox from snapcraft access home directory?

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I've just installed firefox with

snap install firefox

but I can't open/save anything on the home directory.

I tried

sudo snap connect firefox:home :home

and it didn't work. I click open and it does nothing. Also saving a page does nothing.

Other softwares, like Inkscape, will only run if I launch with root;

 snap run inkscape
error: cannot find current revision for snap inkscape: readlink /snap/inkscape/current: permission denied

which is not nice

firefox snap

1 Answers

  1. Strange, I have an issue only with saving the files (on Kubuntu).

    To fix this I have tried to install Firefox with --devmode and --classic flags to remove the snap security confinement. I have tried also to use /media directory as a target after connecting it with sudo snap connect firefox:removable-media.

    All the above didn't help, but I have paid attention that retrying the download makes the job, i.e. clicking the retry icon in the download manager window.

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