[7013] in testers
Re: firefox default download to 'desktop'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Fri May 20 16:04:58 2005
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:32:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu
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Yes, sorry, in fact it was on a Sun.
We may wish to consider changing the default to the
"prompt where to save" option.
--Angie
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Robert A Basch wrote:
> 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
>
>
