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I enjoy folder upload in Google Drive, which works in Google Chrome.

Recently, I've switched back to Firefox, and when I tried to upload a folder to Google Drive just now:

Google lying about Firefox support of folder upload

Is that true? Does Firefox in fact lack some Folder upload functionality that Chrome has? Or is this a generous wording of Google's decision not to implement the feature for Firefox?

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Current Nightly (version 45) implements Directory upload specification. It can be enabled in about:config using key dom.input.dirpicker.

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  • I'll keep an eye on this- when at least the config option makes it into the stable release, I'll confirm and consider revising the correct answer on this.
    – Charney Kaye
    Nov 25, 2015 at 16:48
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    This feature is enabled by default in Nightly (version 46).
    – Matěj Pokorný
    Jan 10, 2016 at 19:32
  • I have just tried Firefox 46 stable on Google Drive, even manually added dom.input.dirpicker in about:config and restarted browser. I am still told folder upload is not supported.
    – Gras Double
    May 3, 2016 at 2:07
  • That's right. The bug status is still "new" - the feature was not yet released and thus it is not yet available in Firefox release channel. If you want to try a demo, you can visit jwatt.org/tmp/directory.html using Firefox Nightly. In order for this to work with Google Drive, Google also needs to re-implement Drive upload mechanism to use Directory upload spec.
    – czerny
    May 3, 2016 at 9:32
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    This feature was removed in Firefox 101 (code, issue). Before that, it was available via an off-by-default about:config setting dom.input.dirpicker. It was made off-by-default in Firefox 50: (code, issue). Before, it was on-by-default only in Firefox Nightly.
    – nh2
    Jul 5, 2022 at 15:16
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782233

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=876480

Unless folder uploading becomes a web standard I doubt whether Firefox will implement it.

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