Firefox wont open file browser via websites
I'm running Linux Ubuntu 20.4
Whenever I try to use a website that has a browse button (e.g. youtube uploader, google drive, etc) I click it but nothing happens, no file browser comes up.
As per previous discussions on this issue, I have tried Safe mode, refresh (in fact total new operating system and re-install of firefox) and disabling hardware acceleration, even turning off popup blocker and none of these have made any difference.
Chosen solution
In the end I downgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 - problem solved.
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Can you provide steps to replicate and screenshot(s) of the issue?
jonzn4SUSE said
Can you provide steps to replicate and screenshot(s) of the issue?
Steps:
1. visit any website with a "browse" button for upload, e.g. https://convert-video-online.com/
2. Click the "open file" button
Screenshot attached (although it's hard to show a screenshot of nothing happening!)
PS.. I have chrome on the same OS and that works fine so I know it's a specific problem with firefox
here is my version
I have an update...
I just noticed that somehow I ended up with two instances of firefox on my system.
On one of those, the browse buttons work fine, on the other they don't.
One of the previous solutions mentioned here for this problem was to disable hardware acceleration... however, simply unchecking the button in settings doesn't seem to work...
I edited the firefox.desktop file in usr/share/appications, inserting some code to force disabling of hardware acceleration. I suspect this may have worked but am going to re-install everything and repeat steps to make sure I have it figured out.
Will report back soon.
Chosen Solution
In the end I downgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 - problem solved.
The button works for me. Did you every try a separate copy of Firefox in Ubuntu 20?
