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Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's no need to access the full file system to download to wherever the user wants. In fact the user might not want to use the local file system, but instead a "cloud" storage provider app!

The Storage Access Framework is built precisely for this.