reassign 304152 firefox thanks Still seeing this with Firefox 1.5?
* Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: mozilla-firefox > Version: 1.0.2-1 > Severity: normal > > > Someone made a word document for me, and published it on the web. > I clicked it in firefox, and selected to save it. I was very surprised > when I wasn't asked _where_ to save it. > > find -name "document.doc" did not find it either. > > Saving in an unknown location is too stupid to be true, so I > looked at firefox "settings" to see if it had some sort > of download directory configured. It had, and it was called "Desktop". > An oddball directory I never made and never used. (It existed though, > because some stupid software made it for me.) > > But the file wasn't there - this had failed. > I changed the preference to "always ask" and then it worked, i > specified a sane directory for that particular file and it got there. > > I can understand that some people find a fixed download directory convenient, > but that sort of thing should never be default, because then the default is > to > save to a location unknown to the user. The default must be to ask, and the > user > may then configure automatic use of a *known* directory if he so wishes. > The only useable default is the home directory itself, although it is > not a good place for storing files directly. Not that it matters much - the > silly default "Desktop" didn't work anyway. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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