On 17 Mar 2006 at 10:40, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:

> Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 06:42 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2006-03-16 at 22:29:47 -0700, Chad Groneman wrote (shortened):
> > > It's probably been this way for a long time, but I noticed with beta8
> > > that firefox defaults to automatically save to the desktop rather than
> > > the home folder or some other location.  It seems to me that this is a
> > > quick way to clutter the desktop, and for users who are unfamiliar with
> > > firefox, it might be difficult to find where to change that default
> > > behavior.
> > >
> > > Maybe it is this way on purpose because of the "usability studies" (have
> > > you seen any of them?  Where do they get those people?!), but it seems
> > > like there would be something better.
> >
> > The current behaviour is the default Firefox behaviour. We haven't
> > modified it.
> I remember, that Suse Firefox 1.0.X under KDE came with KDE integration, so
> you could simply choose in Konqueror where to save downloads. Would be nice
> to have this integration also for Firefox 1.5.

See "about:config" and "browser.download.dir" in Firefox.

>
> Also you could replace the default download window with the dialog appearing
> if you choose save as.
>
> There is another problem with the font size and the download window. In most
> cases you cannot see the string behind "All files were saved to: " as the
> Cancel button is there. So this is really  _stupid friendly_, not user
> friendly.

Regards,
Ulrich

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