Firefox download window changed and broken

[hcvv]

That is about another problem. Installation of a security update of today. And it is in another thread Security Update: Updating kmozillahelper keeps failing - #2 by hcvv

Please try not to confuse things!

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@aggie

Rumor has it this is the value to change (I’ve no reason to change it):

It is 2 in my case. Thus should be correct?

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@knurpht

Do you “feel” that the dialogue itself changed?

This is one from Ocular. I get the same from most applications and earlier also from FF. The other one is above in a post.

It looks very much like Dolphin (and maybe part of it’s code).

[hcvv]

@hui

This happened already quite often in the past, that after a Firefox update the wrong filepicker was chosen (GTK/Qt). There are also several threads and bugreports. It‘s a known and usual breakage for Firefox…

To me this sounds as a starting point. Is this configurable or should I create a bug report with this text as a basis?

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@OrsoBruno

Maybe check that browser.download.alwaysOpenInSystemViewerContextMenuItem and browser.download.openInSystemViewerContextMenuItem are both set to “true” in the about:config page?

Both are set to true.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[hcvv]

@hcvv

To me this sounds as a starting point. Is this configurable or should I create a bug report with this text as a basis?

Filed a bug report: 1247388 – Firefox 140.0.0esr (after update) uses wrong file picker

[OrsoBruno]

@hcvv

It is 2 in my case. Thus should be correct?

Not sure, but that should be correct if you installed from Flatpak. Otherwise it should be set to 1 (as is here with Gnome, and it opens the Nautilus filepicker).
Easy to test and revert if wrong.
See https://thomjiji.github.io/blogs/2023/12/use-native-file-picker-on-kde/

[OrsoBruno]

Or even better see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#XDG_Desktop_Portal_integration

[aggie]

It is 2 in my case. Thus should be correct?

We use KDE Plasma … here’s what the dialogs look like set differently

As file-picker == 2

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and as file-picker == 1 , as we prefer it , because it uses the Dolphin picker sub-components (since we use KDE)

[hcvv]

@aggie

and as file-picker == 1 , as we prefer it , because it uses the Dolphin picker sub-components (since we use KDE)

Yes! That works. Setting widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1.

It is still an annoyance that this changes by simply installing a security update, but I am glad it is OK now.

Thanks all (and specially @aggie of course.

[knurpht]

@aggie

file-picker == 1

Thanks a lot. I knew this was there, but forgot what it was called.