968229 - Uploading copies the file to a cache in the app directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 942611

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[marcelo.andrade.r]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

I was uploading a file I downloaded in my phone to an iPad running VLC local uploader.

The file is a movie so it's like 600MB.

I used the upload form, selected the file I wanted to upload.


Actual results:

I got the wait or quit dialog 2 or 3 times. After like a minute or so the browser came back and the upload started.


Expected results:

The browser should come back immediatly and start uploading the selected file.

When cleaning up the movies downloaded I checked that the storage was still missing a chunk of space, so checking the settings/storage on android, Firefox came first with a cache of 1.5 GB, so I think what happened was that the file was copied first to a firefox internal app directory before uploading, that is why it was waiting.

Firefox should have used the file directly to upload without duplicating it.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

See also Bug 942611, which is about cleanup. Almost a dupe.