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Good thing I can just install applications from
aptinstead.......oh.
Yea, not with
firefox, at least not without switching to some third party repo.I use the ppa because the snap version does not let me use the keypass XC Plug-In or my VPN plug in.
I have the issue that the snap version can't browse files whose path includes a hidden dot file/directory in my home directory. It doesn't seem there's any clean way for me say "no, I give you explicit permission to read these files." My workaround was to
sudo mount --bind ~/.foo ~/barand then browse from~/barinstead. I'm not sure what they think they were preventing me from doing but they failed.