Comment 49 for bug 131145

The situation is even worse in FF3.0b2 as you can't even enter anything in the textbox of a file input as it's in readonly mode now.
Say bye bye to the copy and paste of file's path from the Shell explorer.
All you can do is to use the Browse button...
You have the file right under your mouse, but no, you have to loose your time browsing your folders again and again to find this file while a simple drag & drop would be done in 1 second.
I totally agree that you must not allow the Website to do it in Javascript, but the Browser should be able to do it securely on user interaction.