284399 - cannot import/export bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Taki Goto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050228
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050228

From the popup window, there is no way to access hidden files like ".mozilla" or
".opera".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > Tools > Import...
2.a popup titled "Import Bookmarks File"
3.

Actual Results:  
The popup lists only regular files or directories, not hidden files.
And there is no way to manually enter the name of a hidden file/directory.

Expected Results:  
(a) Let me enter something like ".opera"
(b) Give me a list of likely places where bookmarks reside, like ".opera".

In other words, give us back what we used to have.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The Mozilla XUL dialog for this has a "show hidden files and directories"
checkbox you can check.  If you're using a GTK2 build, you may get the GTK2
filepicker, which has its own method for toggling that state (which I can't
recall at the moment).  Please see the GTK2 documentation for the method.