I was asking a very specific question about SageMath on Ubuntu 22.04: Are Ubuntu 22.04 users who install the sagemath-doc package able to read those (Sage 9.5) docs with Firefox?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1441339/how-can-i-use-file-urls-from-my-firefox-snap-version suggests the answer is no, or not easily. I thought that topic might be pertinent here. - Marc On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 6:48 PM Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/01jkwYwRU_M/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/ZJ4YTZcllgov1v6m%40stitch. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CALcZXRFQfr0zRc45a5xM7R819G7Dx_yY%2B2f3xxUz7c5rWttLBA%40mail.gmail.com.
