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Firefox Save Image/File not work

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Any Safe ...As.. in my Firefox isn't working. Nor from right mouse click, nor from menu-file. Currently I'm with 108 under XFCE(Ubuntu). But the troubles was may be after 98. I've disabled all extensions - persist. I tried also Troubleshooting mode - still persist. I've tried reinstalling - persist. Where have to look? With Chromium I do not have such troubles. Thank you!

Any Safe ...As.. in my Firefox isn't working. Nor from right mouse click, nor from menu-file. Currently I'm with 108 under XFCE(Ubuntu). But the troubles was may be after 98. I've disabled all extensions - persist. I tried also Troubleshooting mode - still persist. I've tried reinstalling - persist. Where have to look? With Chromium I do not have such troubles. Thank you!

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cor-el said

Note that this be an issue with "xdg-desktop-portal" and may have to install some packages like xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Whether to use gtk portal for the file picker. 0:never 1:always 2:auto (true for flatpak or GTK_USE_PORTAL=1, false otherwise)
  • about:config => widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker = 0

cor-el, kindly thank You for that suggestion! Finally with that I've resolved the case - my Fox is in normal working state! Sincerely!

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Just to be clear... You're saying that you cannot do what's in my screenshot? Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

X11 or Wayland? Do you have the same issue in KDE? Let me boot to xfce and see if I have the same issue.


Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20221217 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0 Qt Version: 5.15.7 Kernel Version: 6.0.12-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600 Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G2 System Version: A3009DD10303

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I had no issue with being able to right click and save an image in XFCE. see screenshot

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Thank you for the answer - I've download the Fox from Mozilla and it is working order! :) ;) Kind Regards!

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Great! Mark it as resolved if you have no further questions.

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Note that this be an issue with "xdg-desktop-portal" and may have to install some packages like xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Whether to use gtk portal for the file picker. 0:never 1:always 2:auto (true for flatpak or GTK_USE_PORTAL=1, false otherwise)

  • about:config => widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker = 0
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cor-el said

Note that this be an issue with "xdg-desktop-portal" and may have to install some packages like xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk Whether to use gtk portal for the file picker. 0:never 1:always 2:auto (true for flatpak or GTK_USE_PORTAL=1, false otherwise)
  • about:config => widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker = 0

cor-el, kindly thank You for that suggestion! Finally with that I've resolved the case - my Fox is in normal working state! Sincerely!

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You're welcome and glad that you got this fixed.