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On 2017-05-22, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 22 May 2017 18:33:47 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> Having just recently allowed Firefox to upgrade from 45 to 52, I'm now |
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>> hobbled with the GTK3 file browser dialog. |
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>> It's horrible. |
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>> First of all, it's freaking _huge_! It wastes acres of display |
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>> real-estate. It was obviously designed by a megalomaniac who thinks |
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>> your computer belongs to him, and that while his filebrowser code is |
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>> running, nothing else must be visible. |
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> |
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> Hmm ... I haven't noticed this here. |
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Interesting. It seems to open using the same size it was last time it |
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was closed. I'm not sure why somebody thinks that's a good idea, |
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either. |
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>> I used to be able to just start typing a path. Now, that triggeres |
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>> some bizzarre "search" feature that shows a spinner for a minutes at a |
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>> time shows a long list of files I don't care about. |
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> You can go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced and deselect 'Search for text when I |
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> start typing' |
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That's something different. That controls searching the content of |
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pages. I'm talking about entering a path in the filebrowser. You |
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used to be able to click on a "browse" button to upload a file and |
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then type a path. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! You were s'posed |
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at to laugh! |
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