Firefox File SaveAs Dialog

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> On Friday 05 May 2006 10:42, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 May 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > > I never just dump stuff in the default $HOME location so why do they
> > > > make me click the show more twisty?
> > >
> > > Just my $.02  but I think the entire GTK file dialog is an abomination.
> > > And a lot of other people do too.
> >
> > agreed.  i remember trying to find a way to avoid this a while back, and
> > basically you can't if firefox is built against gtk2.
> completely agreed.  Saving isn't nearly as awful as telling firefox to use a
> particular app to open a file.  Since most of said apps live in a community
> of hundreds or thousands of other "friends", simply telling firefox to open
> the unknown file-type in kate takes forever!  CLUE: Let me type in the
> location, and maybe even the full file name (since I'd rather not watch while
> the dialog fills with the contents of /usr/bin)...

yea, that's another peeve I have with firefox.  it insists on using
defaults and I can't figure out where its getting these defaults from, but
they suck.


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