282860 - 'Open Containing Folder' should not open a new folder window if folder's window for that download is already open

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050218 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050218 Firefox/1.0+

In Firefox 1.0 when using "open containing folder" to open a folder that already
has a window opened would only focus that window, now that command open a
duplicate window of a particual folder even if it's already present on the taskbar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see above
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Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

Asa or anyone elese, does this function behave this way intentionally, by design?

Comment 2

[Fredrik Branstrom]

If this gets reworked... should it refocus the downloaded file like it does when
you first open the folder, or should it leave it alone? I'd say I go for the
latter, unobtrusive alternative.

Comment 3

[Robert Claypool]

I have mixed feelings on this one. Sometimes when I have a folder already open, I prefer a new window anyways because I may want to keep a folder window on the directory I've chosen and go off and do something different that involves changing directories with the new. I keep certain compilers as C:\CompilerName\CompilerName, where a compressed file involving that compiler is downloaded into C:\CompilerName and extracted into C:\CompilerName\CompressedFilename. Sometimes I want a window that stays at C:\CompilerName while another window starts at C:\CompilerName and eventually gets changed to C:\CompilerName\CompressedFilename. If this gets implemented, it should be a toggleable feature.

Comment 4

[Jerome Brown]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from inlehyta1971.