663777 - about:permissions should expose "default download location"

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Peter Retzer (:pretzer)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Since bug 536503 is fixed download locations are now stored on a site-by-site basis. about:permissions should expose this information in the UI, and maybe even grant the option to change the default directory.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [::dao]]

This doesn't sound like it would be useful... nor does it have something to do with privacy and permissions.

Comment 2

[Peter Retzer (:pretzer)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This doesn't sound like it would be useful... nor does it have something to
> do with privacy and permissions.

you're right that doesn't have anything to do with privacy. but why limit site-specific preferences to privacy only? in my eyes this approach is somewhat half-hearted...
it might be not in scope for now, but maybe that scope should be broader in the future.

Regarding usefulness, even if not that useful, it would still be consistent (of course only if the above mentioned broader scope would be applied).

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Consistency without utility is definitely not a goal :) An addon could be written if people really did want the ability to manually tweak site-specific download directories, rather than just clearing them.

Comment 4

[Peter Retzer (:pretzer)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Consistency without utility is definitely not a goal :)

Fair enough :)
I know I'm kind of a consistency nutter...