276288 - Cannot save file into hidden directory

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Robin Green]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041227 Firefox/1.0+

It is not possible to select a hidden directory in the Save As dialog box.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. mkdir .secret
1. Visit a web page
2. Press CTRL+S to save it
3. Try to navigate to .secret

Actual Results:  
.secret is not visible and there appears to be nowhere to type it in

Expected Results:  
Provide an option to show hidden directories

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This would appear to be the native GTK2 filepicker (the XUL filepicker has a
checkbox).  Right click and show hidden folders in the folder list.  We don't
control the OS filepicker, so we can't change this.