Nobody else seems to experience these gtk3 file dialog crashes.
Nevertheless, here is what I found in the meantime:
- upon a fresh start/reboot `gsettings list-schemas` returns a list of schemas (as expected)
- after loading firefox and dependencies, the same command returns "no schemas installed"
- `ls -l /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled` reveals that permissions on this file have changed
- `sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled` then resolves the issue
Thus, I was able to resolve the issue now - though not in a very elegant way.
Cheers, udo.