file and dir access
I used to use something like file:/// to get the root dir listing. I could then go to subdirs and read files. It appears that Firefox now only accesses files it downloads and it won't download HTML files. Is it possible to do the old actions?
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Hi
I am sorry, but that is not longer possible in Firefox for Android. We are testing downloading pages as .pdf files at the moment and hope to make it more widely available soon.
Why such extreme restrictions? PDF conversion is unnecessary and inconvenient. I can download using FDM (free download manager) but then I can't use Firefox.
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