Turns out this is an issue with the nouveau driver, and trying to use it to drive an older nvidia GPU (geforce 9400) found in the iMac A1225. Nvidia's proprietary driver for this card (nvidia-340) is only supported on Linux Kernel 5.4, so installing Ubuntu 20.04, locking to that kernel version, and installing the proprietary driver solved the problems.
This had nothing to do with snaps, after all. We can close this bug. ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1971707 Title: Ubuntu 22.04 freezes when opening a new tab on Firefox or Chromium snaps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1971707/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs