325668 - if browsing local system-folder, there should be an switch so that files can have system-icons

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias B. Besemer [:BesTo] (QA)]

Hey.

I try to create my dad an local-"intranet" for his notebook.
To bring most funcionalty to Firefox and making some things easyer for him, I want to let em browse those folders with pdf-files he have links on his desktop with Fx. (So he doesn't need to use this annoying explorer-windows and cant make things wrong and also have an smarter way to jump on level up.)
For this solution it would be nice to have an (pref.js-)switch to use windows-system-icons on (local-)folders.
For an long-term-solution (IMHO) I think it also will be easyer for newbees to have system-icons on ftp-dirs as they havent fav-icons and with an standard installation of windows the registered file-extensions are cut-off, so the maybee doesnt know what file-extension stands for what. (But maybee the can see on the icons what file is for what.)

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

I'm pretty sure we use the native file picker dialogs, so we don't really have much control over this...

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

If I'm correct:
Change component to Core: Networking: FTP
Change OS and probably Platform to All.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Change Severity to Enhancement.

Comment 4

[Jackie Liu]

Definitely an "Enhancement", I don't know why it ended back up as a severity of "Normal".  Serverity => Enhancement 

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

Confirming as an enhancement.

(In reply to comment #2)
> If I'm correct:
> Change component to Core: Networking: FTP
> Change OS and probably Platform to All.
> 

I'm not sure if it belongs in the networking component.  It's a UI issue...

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

fixed as part of bug 294800