Open Containing Folder in Firefox under Linux
Posted by flori Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:09:00 GMT
After Downloading a file in firefox and right-clicking on the filename in the download manager, you can choose the popup menu entry "Open Containing Folder". This should open a filebrowser for the directory this file was saved in. I have to admit, that this never worked for me under Linux, only under MacOS X and under Windows. I assume the reason for this is, that you have a lot of options under Linux, but no general default for a file manager. Firefox did never show a very smart reaction (and only displays an error) if no filebrowser could be found: Perhaps asking me what to do would be a good idea?
I finally couldn't take it anymore and researched how to configure this feature. I wanted XFCE4's file manager Thunar to be opened, so this is what you have to do: Open the about:config dialog in you location toolbar (or pick it from the Help menu). Now right click onto the configuration entry list, and choose New -> Boolean from the popup menu. Create the following two entries and set them both to true:
network.protocol-handler.expose.file = true (Boolean)
network.protocol-handler.external.file = true (Boolean)
Now choose New -> String from the popup menu, and set the value to thunar:
network.protocol-handler.app.file = thunar (String)
This will start thunar with containing directory (with a file:// url) as an argument. You can as well use nautilus or konqueror or whatever here. Another possibility is to use open, which would cause firefox itself to open the directory as a file:// url.
Now type network.protocol-handler into the about:config filter. The resulting filtered list should now include these entries:
Now try it with a downloaded file, I hope it works for you.
