Firefox gtk3 recent files?

davidm · 2016-03-27 20:57:01

With gtk3 enabled Firefox how does one get the "recently used" or "recently found" item/bookmark in the file dialog box? I had this in gtk2 versions but now in gtk3 I can't seem to find it. There doesn't seem to be an option available in settings.ini either.

gtk-recent-files-max-age=7
gtk-recent-files-limit=25
gtk-recent-files-enabled=1

It now by default uses the last used directory which is what I want but I would still like to have an option to click to get to recent directories or files.

Awebb · 2016-03-27 22:20:33

Scan through those bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gtk3

It might not be implemented, yet.

davidm · 2016-03-28 13:07:19

Awebb wrote:

Scan through those bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gtk3
It might not be implemented, yet.

I don't see it mentioned. It might be a case of them removing functionality again. I hope the qt5 enabled Firefox becomes more stable soon.

Trilby · 2016-03-28 13:14:29

davidm wrote:

I hope the qt5 enabled Firefox becomes more stable soon.

Sorry for the OT, but is this a thing? This is something I've looked for before, and I just tried again ... perhaps my google foo is weak, but I cannot find any information about a QT version of firefox, except a few older links saying basically that it will never happen. Do you have any links/references for plans for a QT firefox?

davidm · 2016-03-29 16:17:55

Trilby wrote:

davidm wrote:
I hope the qt5 enabled Firefox becomes more stable soon.
Sorry for the OT, but is this a thing? This is something I've looked for before, and I just tried again ... perhaps my google foo is weak, but I cannot find any information about a QT version of firefox, except a few older links saying basically that it will never happen. Do you have any links/references for plans for a QT firefox?

Well it seems there is some degree of support for it available. Gentoo added "support" (not official support just an option within the overlay) for it recently but "masked" it because it is unstable at runtime:

add qt5 support, mask it for now since its not so great at runtime

+# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: MOZCONFIG_OPTIONAL_QT5
+# @DESCRIPTION:
+# Set this variable before the inherit line, when an ebuild can provide
+# optional qt5 support via IUSE="qt5". Currently this would include
+# ebuilds for firefox, but thunderbird and seamonkey could follow in the future.
+#
+# Leave the variable UNSET if qt5 support should not be available.
+# Set the variable to "enabled" if the use flag should be enabled by default.
+# Set the variable to any value if the use flag should exist but not be default-enabled

https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla.gi … ec5de4ccc4

Also here is a Twitter post from last year with a screenshot of someone runnint Firefox with QT:
https://twitter.com/evilpies/status/482241019124416512

...but when asked about it they state (badly translated to English from German): "Is totally untested, can well imagine that it can not even start now "

When I next have time I'll try to build it on my Gentoo box using that ebuild after researching further and if I succeed I will post in off topic or something. If it works at all I'm sure there are going to be problems but it would still probably be cool to have a pkgbuild for it. I'd love to see working qt support too.

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Firefox gtk3 recent files?

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