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I've recently switched to Ubuntu 19.10 (Kubuntu) and noticed that the Firefox file explorer, when saving or opening files, changed.

In the file explorer, when I type in a character Firefox starts to search the current and all sub-directories for what I've entered. The expected behavior is for it to jump/highlight the element starting with the character.

Now for example, here I switched to the root directory and entered t, as I want to navigate to /tmp, but it starts searching my disk, starting from / for t, instead of just jumping to/highlighting /tmp.

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I also use Firefox on Debian, where this behavior does not occur, so I deducted that it has to do with Ubuntu. I haven't noticed this behavior with other applications (i.e. Dolphin, Kate or Gimp)

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As pointed out by @DKBose, this issue is resolved by running firefox with the following environment variable:

export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1
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This works temporarily, when executed in the terminal and persistence can be achieved by exporting the variable on boot (i.e. by adding the line to the .profile, requiring a logout/login)

echo "export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1" >> ~/.profile
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