1763436 - Firefox will not start as snap when home is not default one

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P2)

Description

[Merlin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

firefox:
Instalados: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Candidato: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2
Tabla de versión:
*** 1:1snap1-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Steps to reproduce:
Firefox will not start when your home is not at /home but /mnt/xxxx
My case /mnt/data/gaguilar is the actual path /home/gaguilar2 the home.

$ firefox
cannot create user data directory: /home/gaguilar2/snap/firefox/1188: Not a directory

Actual results:

firefox
cannot create user data directory: /home/gaguilar2/snap/firefox/1188: Not a directory

It will not start.
Directory exists:
ls -dl /home/gaguilar2/snap/firefox/1188
drwxr-xr-x 2 gaguilar2 gaguilar2 4096 abr 6 18:04 /home/gaguilar2/snap/firefox/1188

Expected results:

Browser to be executed. Paths created and security in place... but it doesn't

Why it's important:

You decided to change packaging from deb to snap and that's a tech decision that's affecting to the usability... We are using binaries or using chrome instead beacuse a tech requirement. This is not usability. So please fix the snaps issues (that there are a lot) or switch back to the native installation procedure... or anything else.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Olivier Tilloy]

That's a known limitation of snapd.