220340 - ftp:// or file:// - tree view versus old-style directory listing should be selectable

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jack Angel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030819
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030819

i hate the tree-view file browser! (ftp too)
and somehow it's now always appearing (i loved directory listings which were before)
the biggest flaw is that i can't copy the link from this bitchin' treeview
for users like me, you should make this configurable - some people would use the
tree-view, some - directory listing. there should be an option for this!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Um.

We have this.

Look under Preferences | Debug | Networking.

Comment 2

[Jack Angel]

That's good that the optin exists. But:
If only I had debug under preferences. I compiled Mozilla myself, and IIRC with
--disable-debug.
Anyway, such option shouldn't be in debug section. It's a mainstream UI
configuration option and should be placed somewhere in preferences/navigator, I
suppose.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

New profiles always default to HTML-dir listings.

Without having Mozilla open, what's the value of this in prefs.js:

user_pref("network.dir.format", 3);

If it's '3', try 2 or 1, instead.

As for where this UI belongs, the decision was made a while back... 

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The debug panel is removed in milestone builds.

The default value of the pref is indeed the "old-style" listing (you must have
changed it for that profile in the past).

And the reason the pref is "debug" is because the new-style listing is not yet
good enough for consumption by users.

Comment 5

[Jack Angel]

i don't remember changing this pref before, but thanks anyway