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Re: gtk file picker and firefox



"Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/22/06, Nic <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> wrote:
>> A lot of people seem to be using Konqueror because of this which is a
>> shame. I've already posted in the thread about how to switch back to
>> the old firefox picker.
>
> Will switching back to the old filepicker make "Save as..." in "Page
> Info" work again?  

Yes. I just tried it. It works.


> One of the more annoying changes I've seen recently
> is that many pages will embed media that Firefox can't display
> internally.  I've gotten used to hitting C-i, clicking on the "Media"
> tab, and downloading the embedded object to play in xine (or
> whatever).  Now all I get is an attempt to save a 0-byte image, so I
> end up having to reconstruct the full URL and use wget.

FYI there are some greasemonkey scripts that present internal media as
a bunch of links to download.


Nic



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