Firefox - why is it better?

[Michael Knepher]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:20 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:39:16PM -0400, Robert Couture wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 12:37, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > 
> > >  2. I would like my downloaded files to go in my home directory. So as
> > >  root I want them to go into /root. That may be unreasonable to some
> > >  people but it can't be done in firefox. The Desktop folder is the last
> > >  place I want to put them.
> > 
> > Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads.  Here you can select where you want files to 
> > be saved.
> > 
> > -Robert.
> > 
> Youi know  this is facinating. I tried for 1/2 hour, even using the help info. As far as I can
> see I can put the downloads in any directory except the users home directory. If you
> can do it let me know how.

Just how is it keeping you from selecting your home directory? Just a
guess, you may be getting bit by the bug, er, I mean "feature", in the
latest gtk+ file selector that insists on selecting the first subfolder
in a folder. So if you select "Home" in the folder hierarchy tabs or
double click the bookmark for your home directory, it will open ~/, but
the first folder will be selected. So clicking "Open" will cause that
subfolder to be selected, rather than "Home". You'll need to ctrl-click
the subfolder to de-select it, then click "Open".

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