366536 - "Enter name of file to save to..." dialog is unhandy (gnome)

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Description

[Felix Hummel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

This occurs on gnome desktop only.
When choosing "Always ask me where to save files" in Main Preferences and clicking a download link, the "Enter name of file to save to..." pops up.
Now to be able to choose another directory, one has to click the "Browse for other folders" option, so an embedded file manager opens.
This should be enabled by default, because users who want to save files somewhere else probably want to chose another directory primarily and another filename secondarily.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. check "Always ask me where to save files" in Preferences > Main 
2. click http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.1&os=linux&lang=en-US
Actual Results:  
"Enter name of file to save to..." dialog pops up.
Default option is to change the filename.

Expected Results:  
"Enter name of file to save to..." dialog pops up.
Default option is to change directory, or at least visibility of file/folder manager.

This occurs in Gnome. Windows' Firefox does not have this bug.

Comment 1

[Cees T.]

Setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker to false in about:config helped me get rid of Gnome's annoying filepicker.

Comment 2

[Felix Hummel]

Thanks, CT!
Nevertheless, regarding usability either this should be the default or the folder browser should be visible by default.

Comment 3

[Aaron Peterson]

yes, the gnome filepicker and the open with are horribly broken in gnome (ubuntu 8.10)  Gnome is hopeless. I couldn't navigate / to find the program to open a file with.  Please please don't be like gnome!

I'll use that tip to avoid the gnome non-picker

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552613

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

no activity for years, closing.
Feel free to reopen if this is still occurring