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[Manuel López-Ibáñez <133133@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(In reply to kolAflash from comment #43)
> Everyone who worries about this bug, please click the little "vote" button
> at the top and vote for this bug to be solved!
> Every vote counts! ;-)

The main purpose of voting is to avoid the annoying and useless "Me
too!" messages: see bug 374002. Votes do not influence which bugs get
fixed.

(In reply to Szczepan Hołyszewski from comment #42)
> I am starting to suspect developer malice here.

That seems uncalled for. Firefox developers working on Linux issues are
very few and hard-working. They need more love and support and not users
throwing accusations. Also, if you honestly want to see support of Linux
continued, you are shooting yourself in the foot with such a comment:
Which developer wants to work on supporting an OS when users of that OS
accuse them of malice? Scaring developers away is not the way to improve
such support!

The reality is that there are very few Firefox developers that use
GNU/Linux, and all of them probably use GNOME/GTK. GTK developers have
contributed at lot to Mozilla/Firefox, whereas KDE has its own browser
(Konqueror and now Rekonq). The people that have tried to improve
Firefox on KDE have done so by creating add-ons or distribution-specific
patches. This is a quick way to get results but tends to bitrot and
break sooner or later.

The *only* way Firefox support for KDE will improve is if people using
Firefox on KDE join Firefox development and do it. If you cannot do it
yourself for lack of time or skills, create a kickstarter and hire a
developer that can. If you do not have skills, money, or time, and you
cannot figure out another way to help, then resign yourself in silence
because it will probably get worse. Attacking developers, whining and
useless comments (mine ones included, unfortunately) only make
developers *less* inclined to follow bug reports about KDE.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133133

Title:
  "Open containing folder" is only working if nautilus is present

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Confirmed
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  Tools->Downloads-> (Right click)->Open containing folder

  Result: Nothing happens (not even an error).
  Expected: An error, a dialog asking to choose a file manager or just konqueror showing the folder.

  Fix: add the following line to prefs.js
  user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.file", "konqueror");

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Aug 17 12:54:22 2007
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
  Package: firefox 2.0.0.5+1-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  SourcePackage: firefox
  Uname: Linux localhost 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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