# Cannot select and upload files on websites

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177 "2024-04-29T12:24:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/1 "2024-04-29T12:24:46Z")

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Hi,

After updating to Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS I cannot upload files any more in webforms. Like attachments in Gmail.

I don’t know what can cause this, please let me know if I can provide any information that can help solve this issue, not sure where to start debugging this.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/2 "2024-04-29T12:36:58Z")

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are you using flatpak’s ? [Can´t drag and drop](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/can-t-drag-and-drop/7165)

Note - as per that link, for me drag and drop works in the snap version of firefox

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/3 "2024-04-29T19:48:12Z")

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I’m not using flatpak’s. Only .deb and snap packages.

The drag and drop works in Gmail, but in other things the File Select doesn’t work in Web applications. Like my ISO upload in proxmox.

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/4 "2024-04-29T19:52:06Z")

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I have just updated to latest Firefox version from snap.

firefox 125.0.3-1

Doesn’t solve the problem.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/5 "2024-04-29T20:22:11Z")

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Give me an example of a web-app that is easy to install that doesn’t work.

Electron apps like vscode work ok here.

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 7:25am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/6 "2024-04-30T07:25:00Z")

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If you create an HTML file on you computer with following content?

```html
<html>
    <body>
        <form>
            <input type="file" />
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

```

That’s enough to prove that the file dialog doesn’t work. That’s what I ment by web applications.

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/7 "2024-04-30T07:27:52Z")

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I have just tested my html file and my proxmox, which i had problems with too, with chromium, and that works fine, so perhaps a Firefox bug?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/8 "2024-04-30T19:10:32Z")

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hmm - that snippet under firefox allows me to choose a file - selecting the file shows the name on the page.

Same as in chrome.

I wonder if this some sort of firefox corruption in your profile

Maybe create a new profile

```
firefox --ProfileManager

```

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/9 "2024-05-01T08:48:16Z")

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> [@fossfreedom](#):
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> `firefox --ProfileManager`

Thanks for the suggestion, didn’t think about that.  
That doesn’t change anything with the newly created file.

But at least it probably something local then, and not effecting anyone, which is good 🙂

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/10 "2024-06-11T15:05:42Z")

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Strange, after uninstalling the `xdg-desktop-portal-gnome` the problem was solved for me. I did it because of some other problems I had [1]. I don’t see how this is related.

[1] [Gnome Settings (46.0.1) takes almost 30 seconds (#3037) · Issues · GNOME / Settings · GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/3037)

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/11 "2024-06-11T18:01:32Z")

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Congrats for finding the issue.

Odd that it was installed. Out of the box we dont ship with the gnome portal… we ship with the gtk portal.

Likely to be a recommendation for a gnome app you have installed.

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**Author:** ![tomasnorre](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/tomasnorre/32/2287_2.png) [@tomasnorre](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/tomasnorre)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-select-and-upload-files-on-websites/7177/12 "2024-06-12T06:32:39Z")

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Yeah I don’t understand it either. But at least it’s solved for now.