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Bug 666929 - Firefox cannot see gvfs volumes
Summary: Firefox cannot see gvfs volumes
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firefox
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jan Horak
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 668448 670971 756082 782183 835616 1075802 1269194
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-03 18:22 UTC by Matthew Mosesohn
Modified: 2018-12-04 14:23 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-04-19 22:02:08 UTC
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Description Matthew Mosesohn 2011-01-03 18:22:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
If you set up an SSH/SFTP connection, and attempt to open/save a file to/from a gvfs volume, it is not visible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gvfs-1.4.3-9.el6.x86_64
firefox-3.6.12-1.el6_0.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to a SSH volume from Nautilus
2. Open Firefox
3. Browse to a web page
4. Go to File -> Save Page As...
5. Try to find your file share
  
Actual results:

The gvfs volume is not visible.

Expected results:
The disk should be showing up.


Additional info:
One poor workaround is to enable gvfs-fuse, which is very slow and often ends in failure.

I was wondering that since this issue has been known for 3+ years upstream, if we plan to make a workaround like some other distros like firefox-gnome-support for Ubuntu, or what the status of getting gvfs support into Firefox upstream is.

This is a big blocker for CSB6 because most of our user base is reliant on Firefox/Thunderbird for their work, and saving files to/from file shares via gvfs is part of their work. 

The alternative is fuse-sshfs, but currently it is broken due to mount type tagging issues, which should be fixed in 6.1, but GVFS is superior for our interests because it can be set up with less intervention.
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-01-07 15:55:01 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2011-01-11 09:48:55 UTC 
Jan is working on that.
Comment 13 Matthew Mosesohn 2012-01-05 17:45:10 UTC 
Any chance this can see some action for FF10, which will be the long-term release candidate?  This bug just saw it's birthday 2 days ago.
Comment 19 Matthew Mosesohn 2012-07-09 13:24:54 UTC 
Jan,

What's your level of confidence on this? Have you tested the patch on a scratch build yet?
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