From: landry@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: firefox uploads
To: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:01:22 +0200

Le Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 02:37:55PM +0200, Jan Stary a écrit :
> This is firefox-154.0p0 on a current/amd64.
> I am having trouble selecting files as uploads
> or as attachments to emails etc.
> 
> This is what happens: I press whatever upload button
> a given page has ("browse files", "attach file", ...)
> and the file selection window appears. It offers Recent
> (empty) in the left bar, and "Other Locations".
> 
> Clicking on Other Locations makes "Computer" (i.e. the / path)
> appear the right frame. Clicking on that goes empty again,
> probably because / is not unveiled.

ctrl-l gives you the url bar in the gtk+ file select dialog, where you
can type the full path to the dir you've unveiled.

one can also use gtk bookmarks, so that they appear there:

$cat .config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
file:///tmp

Landry