258085 - Honor operating system/desktop file manager selection for "open containing folder", or provide a preference.

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[Csaba Lack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

I think the open containing folder with another file manager can be useful. For
example if you like much better the Total Commander in windows than Explorer, or
Krusader on linux, you can browse the download folder with your favourite
filemanager.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
New filetype in Options.../Downloads/File Types   example: "folder"

Comment 1

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Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I'm not sure you can't do this with the Launchy extension

Comment 3

[dsotm]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not sure you can't do this with the Launchy extension
You can't.

This bug still exists. Even with a custom filemanager defined in Windows, "open containing folder" in FF 2.0 still uses Windows Explorer.

Comment 4

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Confirming as feature request.

Comment 5

[Mathias Panzenböck]

This bug is really annoying for KDE users. Most fix it by making a link called "nautilus" linking "konqueror". But that's an ugly hack. Why not just use xdg-open (if it exits)? This will open the right app for the currently running desktop environment. There is no reason at all why this xdg-open should not be used under *nix. I for myself did an even uglier hack to tell Firefox to use Konqueror, see: http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub/stories/316660/

Just running xdg-open file:///path/to/the/dir/ should do the whole trick. No special support for any DE needed.

Comment 6

[ShellExecute]

Firefox should be calling:-
ShellExecute(handle, NULL, <fully_qualified_path_to_folder>, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);


As stated in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153%28VS.85%29.aspx

Comment 7

[Csaba Lack]

6 years old request... :-)

Comment 8

[Ivan Garcia]

This bug is really annoying for those of use that use explorer replacements like xplorer2.

Comment 9

[Thomas Sisson]

This sounds to me that Mozilla is not being compliant in supporting user defaults regardless of the operating system. It is well-known that this is a major issue for KDE users on Linux who use Dolphin as a file manager.

It sounds to me that there is a need for a major rewrite of code that calls the file manager from Mozilla applications.

Can everyone who works on this specific area of code get together so that it may be fixed regardless of the user's operating system?

Comment 10

[PhobosK]

This bug is still valid for FF 29.0.1 in Linux.

It turns out that FF (tested on 29.0.1 on Gentoo) when built with dbus support has a wrong way to "Open containing folder".
It first calls (instead of checking if exists first and then calling) org.freedesktop.FileManager1 on the session bus and thus if nautilus is installed it is started as "/usr/bin/nautilus --no-default-window" and in this way FF doesn't honor the XDG at all.

So for now a workaround is either to delete the /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service or change its Exec to "dolphin" (if you are under KDE, though that may have implications 'cause dolphin doesn't register any org.freedesktop.FileManager1).

It needs fix definitely or at least an option to choose in FF preferences

Comment 11

[Elmo]

This bug is still valid for FF36. Fedora 21 here running KDE. I installed another DE yesterday (MATE Desktop) and now "Caja" opens up instead of what is my standard Dolphin! I have all of the defaults set correctly. 

They should just use the associations settings like from xdg-open or allow us to pick a default filemanager in about:config

$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory
dolphin.desktop

Comment 12

[watchman]

I click on "open containing folder" and I get a dialog asking me to specify an application; if I navigate to /usr/bin and select 'dolphin', nothing happens; it seems that what Firefox NOW means by "the link" is the file itself; I don't know, nothing opens.