<story><title>Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_Access_API</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AshleysBrain</author><text>I agree - the File System Access API with full integration with local files and folders is essential for desktop web apps. Ours[1] supports File System Access for saving and opening projects in Chromium-based browsers, and our stats show a full 65% of users save that way. So it&amp;#x27;s also what real people actually want to use in browsers.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.construct.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.construct.net&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ar9av</author><text>I, on the other hand, am actually annoyed that Mozilla doesn&amp;#x27;t support the File System Access API. I understand that there are security concerns that need to be evaluated more, but the API has to explicitly request for user permissions anyways and has to re-request user permissions when the tab is closed. I&amp;#x27;d much rather live in a world where I can briefly use a web app to do some task than be forced to install a myriad of native desktop apps that have unsandboxed and unpermissioned access to everything on my system.&lt;p&gt;Origin private file system access seems cool, albeit a half measure. Seems like a better alternative than putting blobs into IndexedDB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>account42</author><text>&amp;gt; So it&amp;#x27;s also what real people actually want to use in browsers.&lt;p&gt;I am a real person and I don&amp;#x27;t want this.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_Access_API</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AshleysBrain</author><text>I agree - the File System Access API with full integration with local files and folders is essential for desktop web apps. Ours[1] supports File System Access for saving and opening projects in Chromium-based browsers, and our stats show a full 65% of users save that way. So it&amp;#x27;s also what real people actually want to use in browsers.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.construct.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.construct.net&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>ar9av</author><text>I, on the other hand, am actually annoyed that Mozilla doesn&amp;#x27;t support the File System Access API. I understand that there are security concerns that need to be evaluated more, but the API has to explicitly request for user permissions anyways and has to re-request user permissions when the tab is closed. I&amp;#x27;d much rather live in a world where I can briefly use a web app to do some task than be forced to install a myriad of native desktop apps that have unsandboxed and unpermissioned access to everything on my system.&lt;p&gt;Origin private file system access seems cool, albeit a half measure. Seems like a better alternative than putting blobs into IndexedDB.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgv</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m basically against the browser getting too much access, so what is missing in Firefox 111 for your use case? Is it just less convenient for end-users?</text></comment>