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PSA: Firefox now auto-uses the XDG portal file picker (europe.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev
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Somewhat of a PSA for Qt users:

On Linux, Firefox will now default to the XDG portal file picker if available, rather than the GTK3 one, which is usually better integrated with the user's desktop environment, and more powerful. https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/149.0/releasenotes/

Always needed a patched version of Firefox before for that. Presumably most distros will transparently throw that patch out of their Firefox package, so likely don't have to do anything.

But well, you don't specifically need a patched version anymore for that, so if that's a separate package on your distro, you could consider using the normal package again. Although, I believe there's also still patches floating about for using the KDE mimetype system...

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago

Nice, that's one default i won't have to change anymore.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The GTK3 file chooser is so bad. Genuinely worst part of using GIMP.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago

worst part of GTK

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

XDG portal?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

This was back in March.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

About fucking time. I've been fixing that on every FF install I've had for years now. And every once in a while it gets reverted on me, which pisses me off. Almost as much as having to get rid of the Fedora bookmarks crap about once a year.

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was an about:config before, didnt actually need a patch

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

Some patched it to change the default in config.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Omg, is this why the save/open/cancel buttons are at the top of the dialog???

i've been annoyed at that for years... it just changed one day

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Yah, it's using the GTK dialog by default. What sort of idiot puts the cursor in the Search box by default when you're saving a file? A Gnome dev, obviously.