On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM Caspar Schutijser <caspar@schutijser.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 07:29:20PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
> > Sorry for the long delay. Took me longer to move to -current than
> > I had anticipated.
> >
> > I can confirm that the issue of the file-chooser window size
> > does not exist in -current, as you mentioned.
> >
> > I have not had much time to play with the new installation, but
> > one thing I did notice is that the file-chooser choosing files
> > for upload is not listing files nor allowing for browsing
> > directories.  For saving files it works as expected.  It shows
> > the contents of ~/Downloads directory.  My understanding is it
> > is unveil-ed to ~/Downloads and /tmp with "rwc".  So, I could be
> > doing something incorrectly.
>
> Hmm, interesting. I just did some testing, I created the file
> /tmp/test.html with the following content and opening that page
> in both Tor Browser and Firefox:
>   <h1>Test</h1>
>   <input type="file">
>
> I do not observe a difference in behavior. Can you describe more
> explicitly what you see in Tor Browser? Are you able to navigate to
> ~/Downloads?
>

As I suspected, this was *my* user error.  I don't want to take too much of
your time, so you can stop reading at this point, but I will try to explain
what threw me off just for the archives.

It has been a while since I've used Firefox. At least with Chrome the file
chooser shows on the left pane, at the very top left corner: "Recent" and
under that "tmp" with a download icon to its left. Then, a horizontal
divider, and blow it "+ Other Locations".

With tor-browser, I see almost exactly the same, except the "tmp" is
missing.

So I was clicking on "Other Locations" and being presented "On this
Computer" on the right pane, which wouldn't take me anywhere because of
unveil(2) (as expected). But, what I didn't realize is that I can simply
start typing "/tmp" and I get at the very top a search-bar like text input
field, which also allows me to navigate to '~/Downloads" in addition to
"/tmp".

Thanks for reading and your help!
--patrick



> Indeed, ~/Downloads and /tmp are unveiled so they are browsable and many
> other directories are not. So that is expected behavior.
>
>