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Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 3 years ago by gaul@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[+] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml -12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Okay, whoop.

Let me fucking download my files to where I want to on mobile, goddamnit.

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[–] eco@lemm.ee 20 points 3 years ago

Android has locked down free access to storage in recent versions. Blame Google.

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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That's 100% Google's fault. Firefox has no control on over this, Android prevents apps from accessing the full file system now.

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[–] valpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 years ago

There's no need to access the full file system to download to wherever the user wants. In fact the user might not want to use the local file system, but instead a "cloud" storage provider app!

The Storage Access Framework is built precisely for this.

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