On 6/5/22 13:34, Laura Conrad wrote:
"John" == John Abreau <[email protected]> writes:John> Just noticed this uread thread in my inbox. John> The issue is firefox, and I imagine, other web browsers, won't follow John> file:// urls from a web page; such urls work when entered directly at the John> address bar, but be ignored when placed within an html document. I believe John> it's a security measure intended to thwart cross-site scripting attacks.This is probably a different html issue from the one I've been dealing with. But I'll describe my problem and solution in case it helps someone else. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04LTS, firefox stopped displaying emails from emacs. Emacs wrote a file like /tmp/<filename>, and firefox couldn't access it. It turns out that 22.04 installs firefox from a snap, and snap programs can't access /tmp files. (They claim to be able to access files in /home, but I wasn't able to verify that.)
This was a problem I had when I tried Lubuntu. LibreOffice (at least the Ubuntu-supplied .deb package) uses Firefox to display its help files. Firefox via the .deb package retrieved the help files without issue. The Firefox snap, couldn't, displaying a 404 error in the browser. The bug report filed on this (eight months ago and since confirmed), remains unresolved. I eventually gave up on Lubuntu. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
