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Captain Murdock

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Dec 16, 2009, 8:05:47 AM12/16/09
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I've been waiting for a long time for this simple feature to be added
to firefox, but apparently most people are fine with the way it is
now.
I am talking about when you download a file with firefox and then when
you should choose where to save it. I am bothered over the fact that
you cannot choose from like the 5 or 10 most recently places you've
saved files before to from a drop-down list, like many other programs
have. Sure you automatically come to the last folder you saved a file
to, but if you want to the second last you used, you have to browse
your way to it.

Felix Miata

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Dec 16, 2009, 10:44:03 PM12/16/09
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On 2009/12/16 05:05 (GMT-0800) Captain Murdock composed:

Though it seems hard to believe, the better supplier of a better file picker
is generally the DTE or operating system rather than the application. Even
that can be hard to get to happen though -
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104501#c2 was filed 56 months ago and
still isn't fixed.
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Alexander Limi

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Dec 17, 2009, 2:15:57 AM12/17/09
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I'm doing some work around the download manager for the coming versions of
Firefox, and I agree that we need a better way to pick commonly used
download folders. Keep an eye out on Planet
Firefox<http://planet.firefox.com/>for a proposal sometime in the new
year. :)

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Jason Spiro

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Dec 21, 2009, 11:24:19 AM12/21/09
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Captain Murdock <p0xhtg <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I've been waiting for a long time for

[snip]


> when you download a file with firefox and then when
> you should choose where to save it. I am bothered over the fact that
> you cannot choose from like the 5 or 10 most recently places you've
> saved files before to from a drop-down list

What OS are you on?

> like many other programs
> have.

Which other programs on your OS have this feature?

Kind regards,
-Jason

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