1905029 - On Android, when uploading file to a form, it pops up a limited file picker (no SAF)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Fenix :: General, defect)

Description

[Alain Knaff]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visited a form with a file upload input:

   <form action="upload.cgi">
   <input type="file" id="myFile" name="filename"><br>
   <input type="submit">
   </form>

2. Clicked Browse to chose a file to upload

3. When it asked for permissions, chose "Allow all"

Actual results:

A file picker showed up which had no access to SAF roots (such as Termux)

Intent issued by Firefox were:
06-27 09:34:48.374 1585 2309 I ActivityTaskManager: START u0 {act=android.intent.action.CHOOSER cmp=com.android.intentresolver/.ChooserActivityLauncher (has extras)} with LAUNCH_MULTIPLE from uid 10271 (BAL_ALLOW_VISIBLE_WINDOW) result code=0
06-27 09:34:48.421 1585 1786 I ActivityTaskManager: START u0 {act=android.intent.action.GET_CONTENT cat=[android.intent.category.OPENABLE] typ=/ flg=0x3000000 cmp=com.google.android.providers.media.module/com.android.providers.media.photopicker.PhotoPickerGetContentActivity (has extras)} with LAUNCH_MULTIPLE from uid 10271 (realCallingUid=10082) (BAL_ALLOW_VISIBLE_WINDOW) result code=0

It looks to me as if the file picker is a picker specially geared towards photos, although the html form says nowhere that it is only interested in picture uploads.

Expected results:

It should be possible to upload documents (files) from SAF roots such as Termux.

For comparison, the "Simple Document Editor" app allows to pick SAF files, and issues the following intent:
06-27 09:49:33.525 1585 3885 I ActivityTaskManager: START u0 {act=android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT cat=[android.intent.category.OPENABLE] typ=/ cmp=com.google.android.documentsui/com.android.documentsui.picker.PickActivity (has extras)} with LAUNCH_MULTIPLE from uid 10270 (BAL_ALLOW_VISIBLE_WINDOW) result code=0

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Networking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:royang, could you have a look please?

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