In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite ...
  • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.mlEnglish
    517·
    11 months ago

    Okay, whoop.

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

    • eco@lemm.ee
      20·
      11 months ago

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

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

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

      • valpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        31·
        11 months 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.