232138 - "Show Folder" button doesn't work in Tools | Options | Downloads | Download Folder

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Steve A]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125 Firebird/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125 Firebird/0.8.0+

In Tools/options/downloads/download folder there is a button labelled "show folder".

Pressing this button appears to have no effect whatsoever.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open tools/options/download
2. Press button "show folder"
3. Observe that nothing happens

Actual Results:  
Nothing at all

Expected Results:  
? Presumably opened up a list of files within the download folder?????

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Confirming bug on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125 Firebird/0.8.0+

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Related to bug 249654?

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

here's the js console output when Show Folder fails to work:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsILocalFile.reveal]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/pref-downloads.js :: showFolder :: line 254"
 data: no]

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

is this a problem on Windows?

it's not a problem on Mac, afaict.

Comment 5

[Michaël Arnauts]

The same (nothing :) ) happens when clicking "show folder" in the download manager.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040809 Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 6

[Raul Acevedo]

I get the same thing on trunk build Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040908 Firefox/0.9.1+.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is Linux-only, I have a patch in progress fixing this bug in a couple of
locations, using the seamonkey method (since nsIFile.reveal() doesn't work on GTK)

Comment 8

[chris hofmann]

doesn't look like a patch will make 1.0.  renominate if something appears.

Comment 9

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

*** Bug 262089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

perhaps fixed by dmose's checkin for bug 249654?

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

looks fixed with 2004102109-0.9+ on linux fc2.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed with 2004102109-0.9+ on fc2 (gnome). when I click "show folders" I
get the External Protocol Request dialog asking me if I wanted to launch the
file: (pointing to the path specified in the pref; unless it's Desktop --see bug
241245). clicking "launch application" opens the gnome file browser I had set
for my file manager (as expected).

Comment 13

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change