(In reply to Harshit Sohaney [:hsohaney] from comment #9) > hmmm maybe it's just me, but an application requesting access to a folder doesn't seem that detrimental to UX right? Imo not something worth stopping the train ride for - but I'll let Chris chime in here too. The concern here is that users don't know *why* Firefox is requesting access to this folder. This leads to questions/concerns as in the description of this bug: (In reply to Sam Johnson from comment #0) > I've never used this feature. Could this user experience be improved so that it does not make Firefox appear to be maliciously sniffing my Documents folder? Users get the impression that this is malicious. There is no way to differentiate this from a legitimate access request vs. a user being "hacked" by a malicious website, extension or otherwise.
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(In reply to Harshit Sohaney [:hsohaney] from comment #9) > hmmm maybe it's just me, but an application requesting access to a folder doesn't seem that detrimental to UX right? Imo not something worth stopping the train ride for - but I'll let Chris chime in here too. The concern here is that users don't know *why* Firefox is requesting access to this folder. This leads to questions/concerns as in the description of this bug: (In reply to Sam Johnson from comment #0) > I've never used this feature. Could this user experience be improved so that it does not make Firefox appear to be maliciously sniffing my Documents folder? Users get the impression that this is malicious. There is no way to differentiate this between a legitimate access request vs. a user being "hacked" by a malicious website, extension or otherwise.