Leading slash when downloading video (firefox 3, gecko media plugin)

[compaqt]

I installed the gecko-mediaplayer 0-6.0 to view some videos in firefox, actually mplayer displays them. They are played correctly. When I want to save the video (left click, save) the filename in the dialog starts with an / . If I directly click save, the dialog will close but the video won't be downloaded. When I remove the leading / the download of the video works.

Is it possible to remove this leading / ?

Versions:
Xubuntu 8.10
Firefox 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
gecko-mediaplayer 0.6.0-0ubuntu1.1
mplayer 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13+medibuntu1

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This seems to be a xubuntu issue, since the save dialog is not part of gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer.
You should change the default save directory, that / means that your default save directory is the root of your filesystem, where you don't have write rights (you should have the same problem in other applications).
In gnome-mplayer there is a last_dir gconf key which is used as the default load/save dir, but I must admit I don't know xubuntu and if this key is honoured.

For the time being I'm closing this as it doesn't seem to be a bug in gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer. Perhaps the best for you would be to ask for support in the xubuntu forum or answer's tracker.

Please let me know if you still think this is a bug for gnome-mplayer/gecko-mediaplayer.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Can a tester with xubuntu installed please test this? I can't reproduce in gnome/kubuntu. Please report any result here, if there is something to be fixed in gecko-mediaplayer/gnome-mplayer I'll be glad to do it.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I couldn't reproduce it because I was testing with 0.6.2 which includes the fix for this problem already:

Fix problem with 'Save As..' where filename started with a /

This will be fixed with the next upload to intrepid. Thanks for your help.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-mplayer - 0.6.2-0ubuntu1

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 gnome-mplayer (0.6.2-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
  * New upstream release (LP: #236591)
     - Fix SIGSEGV crash when playing song from storage mounted by sshfs
       (LP: #232396)
     - Fix problem with 'Save As..' where filename started with a /
       (LP: #236887)
   * Remove debian/patches/fix_{drop_callback,mntent_compat_headers}, because
     they are implemented upstream
   * Document new command-line option -q, --quit_on_complete, and old
     --disable{framedrop,ass,embeddedfonts} in man page

 -- Sasa Bodiroza <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:11:39 +0200