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Re: firefox default download to 'desktop'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri May 20 15:13:17 2005
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Angie Kelic <sly@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:13:06 -0400
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:56, Angie Kelic wrote:
> The 'download folder' preference is set to "always save
> files to folder <desktop>" instead of prompting for where
> to save files. I'm not sure where it thinks 'desktop' is
> since clicking 'show folder' doesn't actually show anything,
> and I haven't tried to download anything.
Is this on Sun? I duplicated the broken "Show Folder"
behavior on my test Sun, but it works fine on Linux;
I will investigate.
The default directory is the home directory, which
admittedly may be confusing.
> This behavior is different than the prompting behavior that
> exists under mozilla. Was this an intentional default change?
Not by us. I think this is just a firefox UI change.
Thanks for reporting this.
Bob
