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How private are the 'Upload' and 'Save As' dialogs?

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MartyJames
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As a privacy-conscious user, I always worry about the 'Save As' dialog, and especially the 'Upload' dialog.

I know the Upload dialog enables websites to perform certain operations of files without even uploading them.

Can anyone please clarify: How much access to my computer do these dialogs give websites? Can they see all the files in the selected folder, even files I haven't selected? Can they look inside sub-folders, or even the parent folders? Can they tell the full path of the directory? Do they know my PC name?

I want to be sure.

As a privacy-conscious user, I always worry about the 'Save As' dialog, and especially the 'Upload' dialog. I know the Upload dialog enables websites to perform certain operations of files without even uploading them. Can anyone please clarify: How much access to my computer do these dialogs give websites? Can they see all the files in the selected folder, even files I haven't selected? Can they look inside sub-folders, or even the parent folders? Can they tell the full path of the directory? Do they know my PC name? I want to be sure.

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Dropa
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This goes beyond Firefox browser software issue. For those questions you should direct that to the sites your uploading to and downloading from.

MartyJames
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That answer sounds worryingly evasive.