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I have Gimp installed on 3 machines by means of apt install. On my new (secondhand) laptop,Gimp cant find the local help files (a common problem, with file:///usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/indexnap package, hence my install by apt). Even when I use nautilus to travel to location /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en any html file that I click on will produce a web page with:

File not found

Firefox can’t find the file at /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/index.

Check the file name for capitalisation or other typing errors.
Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.File not found

as the content. None of the above conditions are true. On this particular machine (a Toshiba Satellite, running Ubuntu 22.04, I cannot open any html file via Firefox. On my other laptop and my desktop machines, I have no trouble doing this. I am at a loss for how to explain this situation. All help will be appreciated

NickT
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    May be related to: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1114912/firefox-quantum-html-files-from-internal-storage-usr-do-not-open – FedKad Sep 16 '22 at 11:36
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    @FedKad - It is related and I would remove the snap Firefox and install it by apt, if it were not for the assertion, that the snap would be automatically re-installed. It is not true that FF can't see anything outside home. It can open some stuff below /usr/share (e.g in docs) but other help files like libreoffice exhibit the same behaviour. FF under snap looks to be a MESS. – NickT Sep 16 '22 at 12:56
  • "f it were not for the assertion, that the snap would be automatically re-installed" It is possible not to have the snap automatically reinstalled. This reference shows how - scroll down to 2. Set PPA Priority: It works, I have this on my 22.04 instance using only the APT version of FF. – graham Sep 16 '22 at 13:31

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