Thunderbird 52.1.1 no longer able to see remotely mounted folders

[juanpablo83]

Since the upgrade of Thunderbird to 52.1.1 remotely mounted folders no longer show up in the attach dialog window.

- What is happening

In nautilus mount a folder ("Connect to Server") from a remote server - smb:// or ssh:// are the two I have tried.

Start a new email and go to attach a file from the remote folder. The shared folder is not visible in the attach file dialog but is visible in nautilus

- What should happen

In nautilus mount a folder ("Connect to Server") from a remote server - smb:// or ssh:// are the two I have tried.

Start a new email and go to attach a file from the remote folder. I can see the remote folder from the attach file dialog.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

$ apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Candidate: 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:38.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[gerpder (gerpder)]

Seeing this with smb shares. Do not have sshfs shares so can not confirm that part

[Jon (g-john-i)]

This looks very much like https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1694129 which I raised a week ago.

[Richard Béneyt (rbeneyt-j)]

Also affects sshfs shares.