Well, at least in the first couple of firefox 1.5 versions that were available in sid, it was impossible to select home dir as a target directory; I don't know about the latest versions, I'm using konqueror since then :)
Regarding which version is better, I think it's a matter of what you need; if you're happy with limited functionality (even windows has a much more powerful file picker) then go ahead and use gtk file picker :) > gtk file chooser uses home dir as default :) > and it is MUCH better then kde file chooser (for me) > > В Втр, 21/02/2006 в 13:57 -0200, Toshiro пишет: > > > FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason > > > being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove > > > away due to this inefficient filepicker. > > > > I thought I was the only one but I see I'm not alone :) I've also moved > > away to konqueror for the same reason, that filepicker sucks!!; it's > > incredible that I couldn't select my own home directory to save > > downloaded files!!