#1140357 File->Open no longer allows double-click/enter to "open" a file

Package:
firefox
Source:
firefox
Description:
Mozilla Firefox web browser
Submitter:
Yuri D'Elia
Date:
2026-07-01 19:41:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1140357#5
Date:
2026-06-18 22:42:00 UTC
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I'm baffled as of why this happens, and I believe this might be gtk
related, however not all gtk3 programs I've tested do this so I'm
reporting this directly against firefox:

On x11, file->open (or ctrl+o), select any file, attempt to double-click
to open: nothing happens. File is is only selected. This happens
regadless if the file in the dialog has been selected previously or not.

Attempt to press enter: also nothing.

I have to explicitly click "Open".

Try the same with gimp which links to the same gtk library: both work as
expected.
#1140357#10
Date:
2026-06-21 12:38:34 UTC
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I can confirm this bug, and it also happens in the Save As dialog that opens when you press Ctrl+S. I tried downgrading Firefox to 151.0.4-1 and this makes the issue go away.

I tried analyzing this a bit with ChatGPT and found that the Save button in the Save As dialog and the Open button in the Open File dialog can still be activated by Alt+S and Alt+O respectively, so it's not a focus issue. According to ChatGPT, this suggests that the dialog response associated with GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT is not activated by Enter anymore.
#1140357#15
Date:
2026-07-01 19:00:38 UTC
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So apparently this is actually an upstream "feature":

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047865

logging this here for others.