Bug#424765: epiphany-browser - overwrites download dir setting

[Bastian Blank]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:45:17PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > epiphany-browser not longer saves the download dir setting but uses the
> > last used one.
> This is intentional, because the distinction between "download" and
> "save as" was confusing to the users. Also, it saves a lot of clicks for
> users who download many files. Of course, I'm open to any suggestions on
> other ways to improve the download UI.

Why does the UI than have this setting at all? And Firefox uses exactly
the same difference; explicit save as gets a folder listing, save in the
download dialog uses the predefined folder.

> > This may be a security problem as it downloads many things without
> > asking the user into this directory.
> It does not do so without asking, unless the "automatically download and
> open files" option is set.

Which is enabled by default or at least was.

Bastian

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