Mastodawn

Did a recent Android update break the File Access API in Chrome? On Android 16 with Chrome 142.0.7444.48 I get:

"Failed to execute 'showOpenFilePicker' on 'Window': The user aborted a request."

Google's own FSA demo also stopped working:

Text Editor - Demo for the HTML5 File System Access API.

The Chromium team is now aware of it:

Holding my breath for it to be solved as multiple of the web-based tools that I use daily depend on it.

There is an issue tracked for it now:

And this seems to be a suggested fix:

Interesting to see how this takes its course.

And it is fixed!