Comment 2 for bug 1766100

I'm not able to reproduce this bug on Files 3.26.3-0ubuntu4 on Ubuntu 18.04 (at least, when downloading an image from Facebook to Desktop from Chromium 65.0.3325.181 (277) [snap]) so I'm assuming this is Fix Released, if you can reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 18.04 then please change this to New.

It's not GNOME's responsibility to keep old versions of Files working on older (but supported) versions of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu's responsibility, so this bug does not reflect on the alleged poor maintenance of Files. However if you think that the default file manager should not be GNOME Files then start a topic at https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop , other appropriate places would be #ubuntu-desktop on Freenode or the Ubuntu Desktop mailing list. You would need to give detailed reasoning why it should be abandoned though and clear evidence that it's not being well maintained, I've been forwarding bugs to the Files devs and they've actually been rather responsive (if I'm patient enough) so I think you would be hard-pressed to show that it's actually unmaintained despite all appearances! ;)

A Bug Control member should nominate this bug for Xenial if they think that it should be fixed by Ubuntu in that.