Setting the default download directory

[janbuchar]

Thanks for your work on Glide, I've been using it daily for the past week and I really enjoy it!

Is there a way to set the default download directory? I only found guides that set preferences in about:config that don't exist yet, which seems suspicious to me.

[RobertCraigie]

It looks like browser.download.dir might work? There are references to it in the firefox source code https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/eb5d60087707d1acaf663a8ea2bbf14602e88d2f/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#L124

I only found guides that set preferences in about:config that don't exist yet, which seems suspicious to me.

fwiw, somewhat surprisingly, not all prefs will be present in about:config; some of them are intended to only be set explicitly by the user, so they don't have a default value.

[janbuchar]

I tried setting it, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I noticed that browser.download.lastDir gets automatically configured with the last used directory. I made sure I unset it, but that doesn't change the fact that browser.download.dir doesn't do anything.

[RobertCraigie]

@janbuchar this worked for me

glide.prefs.set("browser.download.folderList", 2);
glide.prefs.set("browser.download.useDownloadDir", true);
glide.prefs.set("browser.download.dir", "/path");

when right clicking an image and selecting "Save image as..." it opened a file picker inside the path I set in browser.download.dir :)

[janbuchar]

Awesome, this works, thank you!

[idlip]

@janbuchar this worked for me

glide.prefs.set("browser.download.folderList", 2);
glide.prefs.set("browser.download.useDownloadDir", true);
glide.prefs.set("browser.download.dir", "/path");

when right clicking an image and selecting "Save image as..." it opened a file picker inside the path I set in browser.download.dir :)

On topic of this, is this known buy that we can't use "Open with" action on downloading files with glide?

I can config browser.download.start_downloads_in_tmp_dir set to true

In firefox or librewolf, when downloading file and directly invoking "open with" with an application, it saves to tmp dir under /tmp/mozilla_dev0/<filename>

But in glide i see it cannot save there at all?
I use this alot to temporarily open text files and so.

May I please know if this is known or how to get it working.

Thanks for glide!

[RobertCraigie]

That is not a known issue, thanks for reporting, could you open a separate discussion?

In firefox or librewolf, when downloading file and directly invoking "open with" with an application, it saves to tmp dir under /tmp/mozilla_dev0/

by directly invoking "open with" do you mean from the browser UI? what happens instead in glide?

[idlip]

That is not a known issue, thanks for reporting, could you open a separate discussion?

In firefox or librewolf, when downloading file and directly invoking "open with" with an application, it saves to tmp dir under /tmp/mozilla_dev0/

by directly invoking "open with" do you mean from the browser UI? what happens instead in glide?

sorry for my haste. This seems to be my emacs config issue. It open fine actually.
Idk why my emacs client is not opening whereas new instance opens it.