"Open Containing Folder" option doesn't work on Firefox

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Binary package hint: firefox

OS: Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.1
DE: KDE 3.5.8
Program: Firefox (Ubuntu version)
Package: 2.0.0.12+2nobinonly+2-0ubuntu0.7.10

What you expected to happen:

When an item has been downloaded from the internet, via the right click -> save as method, the downloaded item appears in 'Downloads' window, then on right click of the item, there should be four options: 1) Open 2) Open containing folder 3) Remove 4) Properties. When you click on "Open containing folder," the folder to which the item was downloaded to should open.

What happened instead:

Clicking on the selection is unresponsive.

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this.

Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce the behaviour with Firefox in Gnome or KDE. So I have marked the bug as invalid.

Regards,

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Please don't mark bugs as Invalid if you can't reproduce. Take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status for more information.

Thank you.

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

Hi,

Thanks for correcting me, but I was unsure what to do with it. Marking invalid seemed the most sensible option. The wiki bug status page you refered to does not give any guidance of what do in this instance.

Cheers.

[Ciarán Mooney (ciaran-mooney)]

I found the guidelines I was following:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage#head-9616b38c0082ca6cf24ee047abf79d9999db1e18

"Sometimes, you will have to invalidate a bug report. This may be because the problem is not reproducible, ..."

[BrakTalk (masonfoley)]

This is currently happening for me in Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.9) in Firefox 2.0.0.14. Steps to reproduce are the same as the original submitter.

[darkmethod (darkmethod)]

Open Containing Folder in Firefox under Linux

Posted by flori on 09/11/2007

After Downloading a file in firefox and right-clicking on the filename in the download manager, you can choose the popup menu entry "Open Containing Folder". This should open a filebrowser for the directory this file was saved in. I have to admit, that this never worked for me under Linux, only under MacOS X and under Windows. I assume the reason for this is, that you have a lot of options under Linux, but no general default for a file manager. Firefox did never show a very smart reaction (and only displays an error) if no filebrowser could be found: Perhaps asking me what to do would be a good idea?

I finally couldn't take it anymore and researched how to configure this feature. I wanted XFCE4's file manager Thunar to be opened, so this is what you have to do: Open the about:config dialog in you location toolbar (or pick it from the Help menu). Now right click onto the configuration entry list, and choose New -> Boolean from the popup menu. Create the following two entries and set them both to true:

network.protocol-handler.expose.file = true (Boolean) network.protocol-handler.external.file = true (Boolean)

Now choose New -> String from the popup menu, and set the value to thunar:

network.protocol-handler.app.file = thunar (String)

This will start thunar with containing directory (with a file:// url) as an argument. You can as well use nautilus or konqueror or whatever here. Another possibility is to use open, which would cause firefox itself to open the directory as a file:// url.

source:
http://rubylution.ping.de/articles/2007/09/11/open-containing-folder-in-firefox-under-linux