Bug 981407
| Summary: | FORM input for a file name changed in a bad way | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Milan Crha <mcrha> | ||||||
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Jan Horak <jhorak> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak | ||||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-07-08 07:37:57 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Created attachment 768864 [details]
how it should be
This is how it should be, in firefox-21.0-3.fc19.x86_64. Note that one can even recognize the entry part from the other text in the window, not like with 22.0, where it's quite hard to know where the entry ends (clicking randomly around I would be surprised that on one place I get a file browser, when it looks like completely empty space on the page.
I'm afraid this change was intentional: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838675 especially: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838676 I'm afraid we can't help you, it seems there's no option in about:config which would put back previous file input behaviour. You may try to file bug on mozilla bugzilla against this change. OK, thanks. |
Created attachment 768858 [details] screen shot of the actual view in firefox I just updated to firefox-22.0-1.fc19.x86_64 and it shows an Input for a file name in a WEB form (like when adding an attachment to bugzilla), as is shown in the attached picture. I consider it as a very bad idea from usability point of view due to these reasons: a) the "Browse..." button used to be on the right, for Left-To-Right languages, and it made sense there, I first see what file is chosen and then pick another one, if I want to b) the entry part shows only the file name, not full path. I can have multiple folders with the same name on my disk, or other disks I'm connected to, thus the file name itself, without full path, is basically meaningless with respect of verification that I attach the right file