You *can* type in a path, without "wading through the directory
structure", but it doesn't help much, since that just is just as slow:
it just puts you in the directory with the given entry highlighted.
One reason firefox is so slow doing this is that it reads 4k from
every binary:
[ ... ]
| open("/usr/bin/lsusb", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 42
| fstat64(42, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=75884, ...}) = 0
| mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb4ac6000
| read(42, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\215\4"..., 4096) =
4096
| close(42) = 0
| munmap(0xb4ac6000, 4096) = 0
| gettimeofday({1145551160, 874913}, NULL) = 0
[ ... repeat for a minute or two ... ]
WTF?
Perhaps this is a gtk filechooser bug?
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