On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:33:42PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:01:39PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
I think you'll find that Firefox requires Gnome/GTK libraries on most platforms. I have it installed on Solaris at work and it explicitly says it requires GTK 1.2 libraries.
On Firefox 1.5 on Solaris it defaults to the XUL file picker. There isn't an option to change it on 1.5.
But the file selector that you dislike (aiui, i might be wrong as i've not researched this) is a Gnome 2 file selector written in GTK, Gnome doesn't exist for Windows or Mac OS X (actually, i think it might be in development for OS X) so that dialogue wouldn't exist on those platforms (I also think that ports of firefox have been made to OS/2 and some of the other weird and wonderful OS out there), hence why I looked for the configurable option for changing the selector.
Yes, I guess Firefox on Windows and Mac probably uses the 'local default' file selector.
The *only* other platform for which builds seem to be readily available is Solaris, I can't see any others at all at mozilla.com.
It would appear that the ui.allow_platform_file_picker config is only available in certain circumstances, it's on 1.5.x.x versions of Firefox on the Linux systems I've checked but it's not on the Solaris 1.5.x.x version of Firefox I have. I don't really understand why that is as Firefox requires the GTK libraries to run on Solaris.
I haven't got a Windows box with Firefox on it to play with.