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Sunyavadin

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Anyone able to upload files from browsers?
« on: June 04, 2018, 03:50:23 pm »
I've been trying for ages to find a way to get an upload dialogue any time I try to upload a picture to facebook, attach something to an email, send something over discord....
The links in the page to do so light up as having being clicked, but no upload dialogue appears giving me the option to select anything.

So far I've tried different web browsers (including older versions to see if it was just a version compatibility issue), installing multiple different file managers, all to no avail. The same problem is present exactly the same whichever browser/file manager combination I'm using.
I've tried fiddling with the apps' permissions with no success and am at my wits' end, since this is a basic function I need my device to perform if I'm going to be using it for work while travelling.

*Glances at the upload button in the bottom right*
*Clicks "Browse..."*
*Laughs as it does nothing*
*Despairs*

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Anyone able to upload files from browsers?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2018, 05:21:07 pm »
Quote from: Sunyavadin
*Glances at the upload button in the bottom right*
*Clicks "Browse..."*
*Laughs as it does nothing*
*Despairs*

It is quite embarrasing, but Microsoft Edge might be the only browser capable of upload. I tried firefox with no luck, but edge worked first time. When you hit browse, a popup gives you a choice of what to upload. Select files and there you go. You obviously have to allow edge the rights to use the card etc (another popup).

Actually, all joking aside, edge is probably the most desktop like browser on android. When I have problems with a site I use edge. Quite ironic that android and its linux roots are outdone by microsoft

Sunyavadin

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Anyone able to upload files from browsers?
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2018, 04:41:00 pm »
Ugh. I'll give it a try, but am not hopeful. And sure wouldn't use it for most stuff, since I can't enable all my normal addons I use in it.