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Jul 28

Firefox and file uploads from network-shares

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There are serveral reports that Firefox (as well as Epiphany) is not able to upload files from a network-share on recent versions of Ubuntu. See Bug #279193 for example.

You can solve this by linking your ~/.gvfs directory to the bookmarks in nautilus.

  1. Locate the .gvfs directory in your home directory (ctrl-h displays the hidden entries)
  2. Right click on .gvfs and make a link.
  3. Rename the “Link to .gvfs” to something like “Network”
  4. Drag the entry from above to your bookmarks

You could omit steps 2 and 3 but you would end up with a not very descruptive link called .gvfs

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