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[don Johnson <1972762@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have much to add to what has already been said, but to break
apps on purpose is ridiculous.  To force someone to use a broken package
app...  Why do we even need snap?  Apt-get works just fine.  It's just
ridiculous.  Fix Firefox and quit forcing snap, Firefox has no problem
accessing my home partition.  Even with snap installed it's reading and
saving to/from the same folder my other distrobutions use, so your bit
about them not being able to access anything on /home/ outside of their
snap directory is bull.

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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
Status in r-cran-plotly package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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