Firefox – GtkFileChooserNative – file selection dialogues

Graham Perrin grahamperrin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 17:02:40 UTC 2019


Firefox does not use xdg-desktop-portal for file selection dialogs
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490186>

 > This patch makes Firefox's GTK3 platform support use
 > GtkFileChooserNative when available. GtkFileChooserNative
 > transparently uses the desktop portals interface, which
 > enables Firefox to use native Qt file dialogs on KDE, or
 > sandboxed file dialogs in Flatpak.

– RESOLVED FIXED, mozilla64

Can I benefit from this patch on FreeBSD?

(What am I missing?)

TIA



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