(Easy 5.6.7 and other versions)
It's a bug that probably bothers no one but me.
Since several versions, when Firefox (the "normal"Firefox, the one that was downloaded via an entry in the menu) is launched, il is impossible to open the directory /home/firefox/.doc
In fact, it is due to the XDG Desktop Portals that "fusemount" this directory (see cat/proc/mounts when Firefox is opened)
From https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox :
XDG Desktop Portal integration
Starting with version 64, Firefox can optionally use XDG Desktop Portals to handle various desktop features, such as opening a file picker, or handling MIME types. Using Desktop Portals allows you to, for example, customize which program is invoked to display a dialog when you select files to upload on a webpage or when picking a download location using Save as.... See XDG Desktop Portal#List of backends and interfaces for a list of available backend options.
Firefox has a number of independent settings for specifying whether each feature should be handled with a Desktop Portal request or whether to use the default GTK feature.
Each setting can have the following values:
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0 – Never 1 – Always 2 – Auto (typically depends on whether Firefox is run from within Flatpak or whether the GDK_DEBUG=portals environment is set)The settings are:
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widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker – Whether to use XDG portal for the file picker widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.mime-handler – Whether to use XDG portal for the mime handler widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.settings – Whether to try to use XDG portal for settings/look-and-feel information widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.location – Whether to use XDG portal for geolocation widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.open-uri – Whether to use XDG portal for opening to a file
In Firefox all these settings (accessible by the page about:config) are set to 2 (that is "Auto") and, normally, outside a Flatpak, xdg-portal should not be used. That's "the original bug"
(Warning : I remind you that I am not a developer and that I have already been wrong)
To fix this i change the values of the five settings of the quote to 0 instead of 2