Comment 34 for bug 387957

Playing a bit around, I found a few workarounds:

1) The thumb button, which I have never used, on my very old Logitech mouse will set the focus without touching the selection. However, not everybody has thumb buttons - particularly on laptops. Scrolling with the mouse wheel in the field does nothing. I guess, if it doesn't have any function already, it could be used as a way to set focus too?

2) Right clicking and selecting copy (as the most neutral option) does the trick too at the cost of replacing what you have in the copy/paste clipboard. Not good, if you were planning to hit Ctrl-C as soon as you get focus with the file name selected. A "focus" option in the context menu would solve this, but I guess, that one is hard to sell.

3) I just discovered that the good old Alt-N for the file name field (at least in my Danish version) still works. The underscore doesn't appear until you press alt, making it hard to discover. I guess that is a design decision - aesthetics? Also it takes around a second for the underscores to appear, which makes it feel quite slow and, IMO, even harder to discover.