227502 - Firefox opens new window with computer 'file-list' when clicking 'show' on the download manager

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[cody]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031202 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031202 Firebird/0.7+

Whenever I download something on Firebird, I go to the download manager window,
and as soon as it finishes, I click the "show" hyperlink on the right side of
the window, but it opens up a Firebird window with the folder's contents (looks
similar to when your on ftp on firebird) instead of opening up a Finder window
pointing to the file, like as Camino and Safari do.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[cody]

Attachment: Firebird opening a new Firebird window instead of opening up a finder window

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

This happens on Linux as well, but not on Windows.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

Am adding this as blocking bug 234739, in which "Show" is going to be replaced
with "Open", and "Open containing folder" is going to be a context menu option.
This bug  will affect that too.

Comment 4

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** Bug 233855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

From http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233855 (RESOLVED DUPLICATE):

This could be fixed by adding a File Manager selection dialog to the Download
Manager section of Options->Downloads in Firefox which allows the user to select
the application used to display the file. Firefox could then call the program
with the directory path of the downloaded file and have them display the
directory (xffm and Konqueror, for example, allow you to call them on the
command-line with a directory path appended, and both will open in that directory).

Comment 6

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This could be fixed by adding a File Manager selection dialog to the Download
> Manager section of Options->Downloads in Firefox which allows the user to
> select the application used to display the file. Firefox could then call the
> program with the directory path of the downloaded file and have them display
> the directory (xffm and Konqueror, for example, allow you to call them on the
> command-line with a directory path appended, and both will open in that
> directory).

As much as this might be essential, I'm pretty sure it would be considered UI
bloat.  If it happened to be a hidden about:config preference, that might be
acceptable.  However, the base problem of Show not using the correct application
really should be fixed instead of just creating a workaround via a preference.

Comment 7

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

You have a point - but I would much rather have Firefox open a real file manager
on Linux instead of another browser window or another tab.

A hidden pref with an extension supplying the UI may be best.

Comment 8

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** Bug 231310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Andrew Keyser]

Doesn't Gnome have a "default"/"preferred applications" thing? If the Linux user
has Gnome installed, it could use that, but that would only be functional if the
user has Gnome installed - so the above approach would probably be best, and so
we don't confuse our poor Windows users and add additional "bloat," the file
browser selection should only be visible on Linux builds, otherwise we'll be
sure to have Windows users screwing up the file manager entry. Theoretically
explorer is the only *good* one on windows. Mac should then also default to
Finder...

Comment 10

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

The Download Manager now has Open in place of Show. Invalid?

Comment 11

[Steffen Wilberg]

WFM on Linux. Right-click -> Open Containing Folder opens Nautilus, as does clicking on the button next to "All files downloaded to:".

Is this still an issue on Mac?

Comment 12

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

WFM on mac.  Resolving per comment 11 and this comment.