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I'm a fairly casual Linux user who's come back to Ubuntu for various reasons after using openSUSE for several years. A weird issue I've been running into is that, for some reason, anything that's installed as a snap can't download images, namely Firefox, Discord, and Chromium (the latter I only installed to test this). I directly downloaded a cross-distro Chromium build and it downloaded the ones I wanted with no issues.

To elaborate, what happens is that I open an image to download it, right-click (or ctrl+S, same result), select "Save Image As...", and then nothing happens. No download window opens and no file is downloaded without asking what to save it as. I couldn't actually find a browser other than Lynx that still runs from an apt package so I couldn't test whether that would work unfortunately.

Any help would be appreciated, especially with fixing this for Firefox in particular.

Slambat
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  • Unable to duplicate the problem. I can download images from snap-provided browsers just fine. Check your logs for error messages. – user535733 Jul 11 '22 at 03:50
  • I don't see any Ubuntu OS/product/release details which may help, but you are aware snap packages run confined, thus they cannot access your whole file-system, only specific directories. What the snap sees is only the squashfs that exists on disk, thus if you've got it set to save where it did last time, but have it pointed to a RO location issues can occur. Given specifics as to what release, where you're trying to save etc. – guiverc Jul 11 '22 at 04:15
  • I've written an answer here that maybe helpful - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1184357/why-cant-chromium-suddenly-access-any-partition-except-for-home but your issue maybe something else, as we're limited to knowing only the details you provide (that question is about chromium but it also relates to all snap packages & how the are built; ie. type of confinement) – guiverc Jul 11 '22 at 04:19

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