From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010619 BuildID: 2001061905 Mozilla used to include an expanding/collapsing folder and file viewer for ftp sites. Sadly, this was slow and for some reason it was nixed. I suggest a rewrite of the code, using outliner to make things faster, and a split pane view to separate folder browsing and file displays. In other words, make it more like native file browsing apps (ie: windows explorer). I'm sure separating folders from files would decrease the super long listings we saw when the old ftp ui was in place, and would increase usability. A non-html interface would also allow for easier implementation of property changing (bug 64214 ) and drag and drop file upload/download/moving. The current html-ized browsing is especially clumsy when searching through multiple directories in a heirarchy. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.go to an ftp site 2.marvel at the html-ized ftp listings Actual Results: I wish this darn wizard would let me leave this blank. Expected Results: But it doesn't. ...stupid wizard... Related to bug 69185 , but this requests an enhancement of the original design.

-> dougt

what is milestone "mozilla1.0" anyway? Moving to future.

reassigning to bbaetz@cs.mcgill.ca.

We're really not an ftp app. My intention is to move to the xul as the default though.

The old view wasn't nixed, it was just turned off by default. You can get the old view back by going to Prefs > Debug > Networking and unchecking Enable HTML Directory Listing.

This sounds like the right design for addressing all that single-click/double-click debating that went on in previous ftp/tree bugs. cc sairuh so she can send future XP-app comments here...

I have no time to work on mozilla at the moment, so dougt is taking over FTP open ftp bugs -> him

mass reassigning to nobody.