Gmail/Firefox/Os X feature complaint

I wanted to send my .profile file to a friend the other day. A couple of things made this more complicated than it should be:

* When clicking on the attach filename textbox in gmail in Firefox, a "file upload" dialog comes up, so it's impossible to type or paste a filename into the textbox. This happens in Firefox in Os X (but works ok in Firefox in XP). I just sent Gmail support a message about this.
* The "file upload" dialog box (a standard Os X dialog) also does not allow you to type a filename, you must browse to the file. This is an Os X problem.
* The "file upload" dialog does not show hidden files (such as .profile), and there appears to be no option to change this.

So I ended up having to copy the file to a name that does not start with a period, and browse to it in order to attach it, which took up lots of time (almost 3% of the time it took me to write this post)