Firefox snap broken in Guest Account on Xubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)

My laptop is sometimes used by visitors. They want to browse the internet. So I setup the guest-account. I found out that the Firefox snap is broken on guest-accounts.

When opening Firefox nothing happens. When starting FF from the command line of the guest-account I found out the following:

$ firefox
2022/07/12 00:46:01.906615 tool_linux.go:82: cannot open snapd info file “/snap/snapd/current/usr/lib/snapd/info”: open /snap/snapd/current/usr/lib/snapd/info: permission denied

Firefox snap broken in Guest Account on Xubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)
Version information:
FF version: 102.0.1 (64-bit)
Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu cononical-002-1.0

You should report this to Ubuntu.

(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #3)

You should report this to Ubuntu.

I did. One can monitor it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1981881

(In reply to marty from comment #1)

Firefox snap broken in Guest Account on Xubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)

My laptop is sometimes used by visitors. They want to browse the internet. So I setup the guest-account. I found out that the Firefox snap is broken on guest-accounts.

When opening Firefox nothing happens. When starting FF from the command line of the guest-account I found out the following:

$ firefox
2022/07/12 00:46:01.906615 tool_linux.go:82: cannot open snapd info file “/snap/snapd/current/usr/lib/snapd/info”: open /snap/snapd/current/usr/lib/snapd/info: permission denied

Likely a dupe of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757195

(In reply to Rail Aliiev [:rail] from comment #0)

We need to find a way to let users launch Firefox snaps using their Desktop
Environment (Unity, Gnome, KDE, etc).

I dont think this is an issue anymore, let's close to make it easier to follow current state of snap issues

This issue is still very much alive in the latest Xubuntu LTS version 22.04 (Jammy), released 21st of April 2022.
See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1981881