No way to temporarily install on Firefox for Android Nightly on Android 11 #2173
Description
Is this a feature request or a bug?
Bug
What is the current behavior?
At least on Android 11 the actual file access permission, I can give to Firefox Nightly, is "File access, media only". I can't just add permission for just file access.
This results in the following output when actually trying to "run" my Add-on:
Selected ADB device: XXXXX
Stopping existing instances of org.mozilla.fenix...
Old artifacts directories have been found on XXXXX device. Use --adb-remove-old-artifacts to remove them automatically.
Starting org.mozilla.fenix...
Waiting for org.mozilla.fenix Remote Debugging Server...
Make sure to enable "Remote Debugging via USB" from Settings -> Developer Tools if it is not yet enabled.
Building web extension from /home/mozdev/git/togglereferrer
Waiting for org.mozilla.fenix Remote Debugging Server...
Make sure to enable "Remote Debugging via USB" from Settings -> Developer Tools if it is not yet enabled.
You can connect to this Android device on TCP port 40691
o: installTemporaryAddon: Error: Error: Could not install add-on at '/sdcard/web-ext-artifacts-1614420488018/toggle_referrer-5.4.0.xpi': [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIZipReader.open]" nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIInstall.jsm :: XPIPackage :: line 321" data: no]
at /usr/lib/node_modules/web-ext/dist/webpack:/src/firefox/remote.js:137:27
at Client.handleMessage (/usr/lib/node_modules/web-ext/node_modules/@cliqz-oss/firefox-client/lib/client.js:162:7)
at Client.readMessage (/usr/lib/node_modules/web-ext/node_modules/@cliqz-oss/firefox-client/lib/client.js:221:10)
at Client.onData (/usr/lib/node_modules/web-ext/node_modules/@cliqz-oss/firefox-client/lib/client.js:187:16)
at Socket.emit (node:events:378:20)
at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:313:12)
at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:288:9)
at Socket.Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:227:10)
at TCP.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:190:23)
What is the expected or desired behavior?
I don't know how this can be fixed... Maybe if the extension would be replaced with ".mp3" to "fake media access"?
Some information about this: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/privacy/storage
As the "--filename" parameter to "web-ext run" seems to do nothing, I have not managed to try what happens if the file extension is just "zip" or even ".jpg".
Version information (for bug reports)
- Firefox version: Nightly
- Your OS and version: Android 11
- Paste the output of these commands:
node --version && npm --version && web-ext --version
v15.10.0
6.14.11
5.5.0