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by qppo 2254 days ago
It basically breaks xdg-open. This is crucial for a lot of flows with desktop software and I'm honestly baffled why it isn't fixed. Any URI with a custom scheme is horribly and completely broken with a browser installed as a snap. Even basic stuff like file uris are broken in browsers installed as a snap.

It's extremely weird to see this kind of thing when it happens too, you usually trust Firefox to work!
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akvadrako 2253 days ago
It is strange this is still broken, but it’s pretty easy to build wrappers for xdg-open and friends yourself.

I prefer the isolation of snaps so I’m willing to put a little work into it, but understand not everyone cares to do that.

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qppo 2253 days ago
It's a problem for my users, because it's silently broken.
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