Closed Bug 299059 Opened 19 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Default download location button not responding

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

1.8 Branch
x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jindrich, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) KHTML/3.3.2 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+

When I click on default download location button in Downloads manager, nothing  
happens. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the Downloads panel in Preferences (Options). Make sure the "Save all 
files to this folder:" is selected. Firefox default is "Desktop". 
2. Save and dismiss Prefs. 
3. Open Downloads manager. 
4. Verify default download location from step 1. 
5. Click on default download location button to make sure it opens to the 
proper directory. 
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens 

Expected Results:  
File manager or Firefox window/tab or something should open... 

I'm using Firefox in KDE

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299042 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This bug isn't a dup either.

This is a completely different issue that *might* be fixed by bug 299042, but I
doubt it.

On my system (Debian Linux with KDE) this button brings up a Gnome Nautilus
window of the folder. I presume that if I removed gnome (which i've been meaning
to do) I might not get a window at all.

This doesn't have to do with the actual setting of which folder is used; it
deals with the button malfunctioning.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Depends on: 299042
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
I see the same thing (still using 1.0.4, since localized versions of 1.0.5 are
cancelled, pending 1.0.6 - shouldn't make a difference in this case, though).
Using SuSE 9.2 (KDE).

Seeing as how KDE has massive market share in DESKTOP linux (complete dominance
in Europe, where (oddly enough) Firefox use is the highest), the state of
affairs with Firefox and KDE is sorry indeed. The number of interface bugs
present is mindbogling.

Anyway, enough with the rant, this bug should be marked CONFIRMED. Not a
critical bug, IMHO, but one that points to an underlying problem that should be
addressed ASAP.
I'm using Gnome with Nautlius. The download window has the button at the bottom that allows you to quickly open the folder the downloaded files went to. This used to work fine for me by opening the folder in Nautilus. I'm not sure what happened, but it is now opening the folder in a terminal... weird. I've checked the Downloads section of Preferences and I don't see a setting for it. I believe it would probably be best if they had a setting 'open containing folder with' then have terminal, nautilus, custom .. or whatever. (just my humble suggestion).
In the meantime does anyone know where what file this setting might be kept? 
The button still works fine as root so it's not system wide.
Sorry .. I should have mentioned this:
Firefox 1.5.0.5 in Gentoo 2006.1
John, others, can you test this in Firefox 2 beta 2? There's been a lot of related bug fixes in this area that might've fixed this since 1.5.0.x.
Ok .. I've installed mozilla-firefox-2.0_beta2 (had to upgrade nss to version 3.11.2) and the problem still exists. I checked if they had added a setting for changing the handler of the download location button, but I guess they haven't.

So until such time as they decide to implement a setting to change the handler I'll have to find out how to change it manually. As I say it 'used to' launch a nautilus window, but now launches a terminal window to the download location.
Do you see anything in the Error Console (Tools > Error Console) when you do this?
Summary: default download location button not responding → Default download location button not responding
Version: unspecified → 2.0 Branch
Nope .. No errors .. 
 I've also determined that it has nothing to do with any of the files that are located in the .mozilla folder as I used a copy of roots .mozilla folder (after changing permissions) and still end up with the same behavior of a terminal opening at the download location. This makes me think that the firefox download location button is calling on a variable of some type that has been changed in my profile.
I've created a test account on the system. The tester's download location button opens a Nautilus file window just fine. I think we can safely say this is not a Firefox issue, but rather a profile specific environment variable alteration.

It would be nice however to know why it changed and how to change it back.

I'll keep digging around when I have time... 

Thanks for your help   
Please do report back if you figure out which GNOME setting is causing this. ->INVALID
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago18 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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