Incorrect Downloads directory for LDAP user in snapped firefox & chromium
Metadata
Current evaluation
Snapped Firefox/Chromium downloads to ~/snap/.../Downloads for LDAP users instead of ~/Downloads; untriaged, inactive 3+ years
Suggested action: needs triage
Reason: No maintainer comments or labels present; the issue has clear reproduction steps and expected vs actual results, but has been inactive for over 3 years without any triage. The issue is about snap package behavior (Firefox/Chromium) rather than snapcraft itself, which may require a different project to address.
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
30.0
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
45
Support Request:
10
Issue body
Test procedure:
1. Log in to Gnome as a Active Directory user.
2. Launch browser (firefox or chrome) - make sure there's no existing config (we are interested in the default Downloads location).
3. Download a file via the browser.
4. Check where it was downloaded.
Expected result:
The files are downloaded to ~/Downloads (or a translated equivalent).
Actual result:
The files are downloaded to:
~/snap/firefox/common/Downloads
~/snap/chromium/current/Downloads
For local users the behavior is as expected (all files are downloaded to ~/Downloads).
This is very inconvenient for enterprise environments where manual setting modification is needed on every host.
This has been tested on 22.04 with the following versions:
- firefox (116.0.3 Mozilla Firefox Snap for Ubuntu canonical-002 - 1.0)
- chromium (Version 116.0.5845.110 (Official Build) snap (64-bit))
- snapd 2.58+22.04.1
[1] https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-sssd-ad
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
30.0
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
45
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Snapped Firefox/Chromium downloads to ~/snap/.../Downloads for LDAP users instead of ~/Downloads; untriaged, inactive 3+ years | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
92
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Snapped Firefox and Chromium route downloads to ~/snap/.../Downloads instead of ~/Downloads for LDAP users. Local users work correctly. Reported on Ubuntu 22.04 with no maintainer response in over 3 years. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
65
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Snap-packaged Firefox and Chromium download files to ~/snap/... instead of ~/Downloads for LDAP users. Issue is 3 years old with no maintainer response. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
65
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Snapped Firefox and Chromium download files to ~/snap/... instead of ~/Downloads for LDAP/AD users on Ubuntu 22.04. No maintainer response or comments in over 2.5 years. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
92
Complexity:
45
Confidence:
75
Support Request:
5
|
needs triage | LDAP/AD users experience incorrect default download paths in snapped Firefox and Chromium, saving to snap-specific directories instead of ~/Downloads. Untriaged, inactive for over two years. |
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