283912 - "Opening" dialog box no longer allows copying of filename or location

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jared]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

In Firefox 1.0, the user was allowed to select and copy the filename and
location displayed in the "Opening" dialog box (the one that prompts you to open
or save the file).  Since upgrading to 1.0.1, I can no longer do this.  I've
tested on both Windows XP and Mac OSX.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link to a binary file
2. When prompted to open or save the file, try to select/copy the filename
and/or location.
3.

Actual Results:  
The text is not selectable.

Expected Results:  
The text should be selectable and allow the user to copy it via Right-click,
Copy or Ctrl-C (or platform-specific equivilant).  This was the Firefox 1.0
behavior.

Comment 1

[Jared]

Anyone?  Can someone at least take a look to confirm?

Comment 2

[Aaron P]

I chose File->Open File, then selected a file from the list shown. This made the
name appear in the "File name" field. I then selected the text of the file name
(with the mouse) and copied the name to the clipboard (using right-click->copy
or ctrl+insert). I was able to paste that file name to another window.

Running FireFox 1.0.1 on Windows 2000 (upgraded from 1.0). 

Comment 3

[Jared]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Running FireFox 1.0.1 on Windows 2000 (upgraded from 1.0). 

Interesting.  I've tried this on three different computers (Win XP on two, Mac
OSX on the other), both with upgrades and clean installs.  The text is
unselectable for me everytime, and when doing a File, Open File as you did. 
Can't figure out why it'd work for you but not for me.

I could understand if it was a fluke on my one install, but I can't imagine that
I'm the only one with this problem if it's happened on three separate computers
and installs, including a different OS.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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