Comment 9 for bug 1972762

I can only second much what has been said.

My Java IDE wants to open local Java API doc with my browser (Firefox in that case), and instead of opening the local doc, it shows me an error message because "file://" is pointing to a Snap sandbox or something alike and not to the root filesystem. This seems to indicate a major design flaw of the Firefox snap.

I assume there was a good reason for the Firefox team to switch to snap. However, a huge disadvantage of using Snap for Firefox is that it captured my Firefox profile from my home folder, stored it in the snap directory, and the removal of the snap package (because of the above reason) now all of a sudden also removes my profile, even without using --purge. This is dangerous!

Overall, snap or the Firefox snap seems to do a bad job in keeping apps and settings separated. Isn't the latter a really useful best practice in many Linuxes? I wonder why this important principle or useful tradition has been broken here.