[snap] URL links functional about 5% of the time

[Rafael Skodlar]

a segment from the Error Console:
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.readUTF8URI]" nsresult: "0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm :: L10nRegistry.loadSync :: line 658" data: no] L10nRegistry.jsm:658:19
    loadSync resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm:658
    fetchFile resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm:573
    generateResourceSetSync resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm:478
    map self-hosted:240
    generateResourceSetSync resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm:473
    generateResourceSetsForLocaleSync resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm:415
    next self-hosted:1099
    generateBundlesSync resource://gre/modules/L10nRegistry.jsm:177
    next self-hosted:1099
    touchNext resource://gre/modules/Localization.jsm:167
    regenerateBundles resource://gre/modules/Localization.jsm:552
    activate resource://gre/modules/Localization.jsm:243
    <anonymous> resource:///modules/OTRUI.jsm:10
    connectedCallback chrome://messenger/content/chat/chat-conversation-info.js:117
    <anonymous> chrome://global/content/customElements.js:217
08:26:55.328
Error while loading 'jar:file:///snap/thunderbird/127/omni.ja!/chrome/messenger/search-extensions/twitter/manifest.json' (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) Extension.jsm:570
08:26:55.329 1626017215328 addons.xpi WARN Exception running bootstrap method startup on <email address hidden>: Error: Error while loading 'jar:file:///snap/thunderbird/127/omni.ja!/chrome/messenger/search-extensions/twitter/manifest.json' (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)(resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:570:20) JS Stack trace: readJSON/</<@Extension.jsm:570:20
<email address hidden>:128:18
08:26:55.455 Trying to load /snap/thunderbird/127/libotr.so.5 OTRLib.jsm:51:11
08:26:55.482 Successfully loaded OTR library /snap/thunderbird/127/libotr.so.5 OTRLib.jsm:59:13
08:26:55.687 Found 0 public keys and 0 secret keys (0 protected, 0 unprotected)
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The above started to happen after upgrading Kubuntu to 2020. I tried base package first, then added snap version. Same situation in either one. Some links from the same email message work, some do not. It's this obsession to "protect me from ugly world out there" that seem to screwup the Thunderbird.
The only way to get to most of the links is with cut/paste

Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04

snap info
snap-id: k1Ml1O9GzSO2QftV0ZlWSbUfQ78nN460
tracking: latest/stable
refresh-date: 5 days ago, at 00:04 PDT
channels:
latest/stable: 78.11.0 2021-06-03 (127) 69MB -
latest/candidate: 78.11.0 2021-07-01 (134) 70MB -
latest/beta: 90.0b3 2021-07-01 (133) 76MB -
latest/edge: ↑
installed: 78.11.0 (127) 69MB -

===== Observation:
Logs are also very poor compared to terse messages 20+ years ago. Time for people to learn the difference between developer debugging messages and application logs mostly used by systems administrators. Redundancy, long paragraphs, etc.
"... Error: Error while loading 'jar:file:///snap/thunderbird/127/omni.ja!..."

OF COURSE ITS FREAKING ERROR!!!
No need for stinking HTML in most emails anyway. Message is a message regardless of the font used to show it. HTML noise is taking way more space than the messages.

===== FYI
I use Thunderbird and Firefox since the beginning and Linux since 1994. Thunderbird has never been so buggy! If this continues I'll need to go back to Mutt or Pine I guess.
Linux sysadmin, Rafael