On 2023-06-29 14:46:00, Marc Culler wrote:
> During our recent release of SnapPy we ran across an issue which is likely
> relevant to whether Sage's documentation is viewable on newer Ubuntu
> systems (such as 22.04). The issue is that these newer Ubuntu systems ship
> Firefox as a snap. A snap runs in a sandbox which restricts which files
> the snap can read. Specifically, the Firefox snap can only read files in
> the user's home directory.
>
> ...
>
> Have people run into this?
>
Alternate headline: multi-millionaire does stupid thing with
billionaire's product; how can math teachers fix it for free?
This is a combination of two problems,
1. Mozilla has been going out of their way for a long time to make
traditional firefox/thunderbird packages hard to maintain.
2. Snaps are stupid (but low effort).
Despite a long-standing and fully independent hatred of Snaps, I can't
really blame Ubuntu for saying fuck it and taking the easy way out;
the firefox experience was going to be degraded in one way or another.
There aren't any great solutions because the only other mainstream
browser is managed by a spyware company and is also increasingly
difficult to package (for slightly different reasons). For second-tier
browsers, there's Falkon (Qt) and Epiphany (Gtk), which can still be
sanely packaged, but that are also missing features that most users
won't give up. Everything else is basically a Chrome theme these days
and inherits Chrome problems.
To summarize where I'm at personally,
* Man/info pages are the standard and still work great
* A fallback browser is nice to have around
* There's always LaTeX/PDF
* Not everything can be my problem
This is more of an answer to "have people run into this?" than an
actual answer, but there it is.
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