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[Håkon Strandenes <1972762@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a severe regression that absolutely needs to be fixed ASAP.

There are several tools and applications for various purposes produce
HTML documentation or reports, that cannot be opened in Firefox.

For example:
- Intel Advisor: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/advisor/user-guide/2023-0/work-with-standalone-html-reports.html

- ARM performance reports:
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/101137/1912/Interpreting-
performance-reports

There are tons of other software that produce similar HTML reports
(Autodesk Nastran, Comsol, ...)

As a developer, I reach into multiple other problems:

- I cannot access Sphinx or Doxygen generated HTML documentation
- Cython html annotations are not possible to access

All of the mentioned HTML files are residing in NFS-mounted folders that
lie outside the users home directory, which I cannot access from the
Snap Firefox.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1972762

Title:
  Firefox and Chromium snaps preventing apps and devices from working
  correctly.

Status in Chromium Browser:
  New
Status in Mozilla Firefox:
  New
Status in snapd:
  New

Bug description:
  Many apps put files in /tmp or ~/.cache to then open those files with
  other apps. Files won't open from those locations with the Firefox
  snap. Just within a few days of using, I've found quite a few apps
  that don't work as they should or seem broken as a result.

  * Any archive manager (xarchive uses /tmp, file-roller and engrampa use ~/.cache, peazip uses ~/.ptmp)
  * Catfish (uses /tmp also for opening files in archives)
  * fish (fish_config uses an html file in /tmp and uses a browser for configuration)

  Other things not working:

  * WebUSB (Used in Chromium for securely interacting with USB devices, installing and updating Android devices, etc)
  * USBMidi (Used in Chromium and Firefox for using Midi instruments)

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