Bug 228252

Summary:	filedialog of firefox practically unusable
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Matthias Hopf <mhopf>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Matthias Hopf 2006-12-13 15:13:41 UTC

In previous versions of SUSE Linux firefox had another file dialog implementation that could be selected with MOZ_XUL_PICKER=1.

In the new firefox version, not only has this patch been removed, but the file dialog has been converted into a usability nightmare. I'm constantly biting into my keyboard whenever I want to save some image from a web page, or the source from the current page.

Given that you cannot select "open in firefox" or similar (for data types like application/x-log of which firefox thinks it cannot display, even though they are ascii), this happens even more often than necessary. But that is a different issue.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-12-13 15:21:17 UTC

For GTK filepicker usability please open a bug in component Gnome.
For the 'different issue' please file a different bug and for getting the old filepicker RTFM;-)

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mozilla_filechooser

Comment 2 Matthias Hopf 2006-12-13 17:16:30 UTC

Works like a charm. Thanks so much :-)))

Was this announced somewhere? Didn't read it in the release notes...

Gnome filepicker usability is now bug #228318.

P.S. I would rather call this RESOLVED FIXED, but I actually don't care as long as I'm happy with the solution ;)