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firefox cannot open file from network share

Bug #304342 reported by Kim d'Audretsch on 2008-12-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #304345: File chooser dialog doesn't provide network access. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Opening or saving to network share is not possible in Firefox. Could someone please explain to me why opening/saving is not the same in every application in Gnome? See also the bug I filled for Gringotts. Because this is not the first time I have seen applications without network shares being visible in the save/open dialog screen. Isn't it like calling an object like save file and thus being the same everywhere? Or is this a too simple view of how stuff works inside Gnome?

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

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Phoenix (phoenix-dominion) wrote on 2008-12-23:

Pleace note, his is a serious problem for people working within a network, you have to download anything to your local system and then upload it to the desired location in nautilus - thanks nautilus has tab support, which eases the pain, but it still very frustrating.

Changed in firefox:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote on 2010-01-08:

I am looking for a master bug for this issue, meanwhile I'll post my workaround for it here.

Can you browse to the .gvfs directory in your home directory and see if your network shares are there ?

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Joril (jorilx) wrote on 2010-01-11:

Here (Ubuntu Jaunty) the workaround works, but sadly that's quite inconvenient for non-techie users.

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giuliano69 (giuliano-lotta) wrote on 2010-03-12:

I can confirm this bug,
A very very similar bug is
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/304345

The problem seems related to the file dialog lybrary (gtk2??).
You can experiment the same situation in Gimp, Openoffice . gedit...

the file dialog cannot access the network. Your resource panel does not provide an hook to netework.

Please, consider that in a weblcient world, this is a big issue.

Could you raise the level of importance of the bug ?

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Emmanuel DA MOTA (vilain-mamuth) wrote on 2010-11-10:

This was the same in Evolution few month ago, i was unable to insert an image from a smb share (i've lost the bug id :( ). And it's fixed now. A fix for firefox won't be too difficult