It used to be (at most two weeks ago), at least in Firefox, that when opening files in the file picker, the initial folder in the file picker was the one containing the last opened file.
This behaviour was very useful, if you had to open multiple files in that folder (bulk opening does not always make sense, nor is it always allowed).
Now instead every time I get redirected to Recent files, and I have to navigate back to the required folder (which is deeply nested...).
Funnily enough, flatpak Tor Browser used to show /run/....
as the last opened folder (implementation details of the XDG portal I guess) while now it works properly.
Were there changes to the gtk XDG portal implementation? Can I get the old behaviour in any way?