aysiu
October 19th, 2007, 03:55 PM
Someone has already filed a bug report on this, but I think this bears getting some extra attention:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/89381
Description
When you are at a website like ImageShack, Facebook, the Ubuntu Forums or pretty much any site that allows you to upload images, you can't preview those images when you choose the file through Firefox on Ubuntu (works fine on Firefox in Windows). This is silly, especially for people trying to choose pictures from hundreds of weirdly named files in a directory. Galeon and Konqueror allow you to preview files. Why not Firefox, which is the default web browser on Ubuntu?
Use Case
Angela imports hundreds of photos off her camera to her hard drive. She doesn't rename the files, and they're all named something like DSCN3000324.JPG. She wants to upload three or four of her favorite photos to Flickr to share with friends. She opens Firefox, goes to Flickr, tries to upload a photo but sees only a bunch of files like DSCN3000323.JPG and DSCN3000325.JPG. She has no idea, based on the file names alone, which are her favorites. So she has to open Nautilus, navigate to the folder again, and then find the numbers of her favorite photos and keep Alt-Tabbing between Firefox and Nautilus to make sure she's uploading the correct photos. Angela would love to just have image previews through Firefox without having to load Nautilus.
Implementation
Whatever they did for Galeon, just repeat it for Firefox.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/89381
Description
When you are at a website like ImageShack, Facebook, the Ubuntu Forums or pretty much any site that allows you to upload images, you can't preview those images when you choose the file through Firefox on Ubuntu (works fine on Firefox in Windows). This is silly, especially for people trying to choose pictures from hundreds of weirdly named files in a directory. Galeon and Konqueror allow you to preview files. Why not Firefox, which is the default web browser on Ubuntu?
Use Case
Angela imports hundreds of photos off her camera to her hard drive. She doesn't rename the files, and they're all named something like DSCN3000324.JPG. She wants to upload three or four of her favorite photos to Flickr to share with friends. She opens Firefox, goes to Flickr, tries to upload a photo but sees only a bunch of files like DSCN3000323.JPG and DSCN3000325.JPG. She has no idea, based on the file names alone, which are her favorites. So she has to open Nautilus, navigate to the folder again, and then find the numbers of her favorite photos and keep Alt-Tabbing between Firefox and Nautilus to make sure she's uploading the correct photos. Angela would love to just have image previews through Firefox without having to load Nautilus.
Implementation
Whatever they did for Galeon, just repeat it for Firefox.