On 6/25/24 13:01, Russell Senior wrote:
Hi,
I had a slightly bizarre experience yesterday with Firefox. I was
using a web form to upload firmware to a router. The classic "Browse"
button allowed me to navigate my local environment for a file to
upload and "Select" the file. Because the file was actually coming
from another machine, I had scp'd it to my local /tmp directory to
make it available to my browser. So, I navigate to /tmp/, see the
intended file, and click "Select" in the file browser. But then, the
file isn't actually selected, and there is nothing to upload when I
click the Upload button in the web form.
I thought to myself, "wait, what?". So, I copy the file to my
~/Downloads directory and try again and it works. I try in a private
browser window. I try in Firefox's "Safe mode" (or "Troubleshoot
Mode"). Still, it works from ~/Downloads but it does not work from
/tmp or /srv/randomdir. I checked ownership/permissions of the file
and the directory.
This is on a fairly recent install of Ubuntu 22.04, with Firefox
127.0.1, and the default Snap.
Does anyone have insight to this odd behavior?
And to add insult to injury, on my near identical setup, it "works for
me". Strange, very strange.
galen
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Galen Seitz
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