[Discuss] html issue

[joe at polcari.com (Joe Polcari)]

Thanks Laura!

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> On Jun 5, 2022, at 1:35 PM, Laura Conrad <lconrad at laymusic.org> wrote:
> 
> ?
>> 
>>>>>> "John" == John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> 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.)
> 
> The solution I'm using is the one described here:
> <https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04>.
> 
> I had done something like  this a few weeks ago, and when I sat down at
> the computer this morning, after updating software without thinking, I
> was back not being able to access the /tmp files.  This version does
> some  pinning and adding instructions to unattended upgrades, that I
> don't remember doing before, so maybe it won't "upgrade" me again.
> 
> 
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