Hmm... I have not used KDE or Gnome for a long time, but from what I remeber this problem persisted there too, on mac or win, if I choose to open containing folder of downloaded file those two oses already preselects topical file, which is very handy and saves a lot of time if there are a lot of files in downloads directory.

So my question is, why non(as far as I know) distribution of Linux does support this function?

Which browser are you using? As for Google Chrome, see the screenshot attached.

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@leosubhadeep Of course, most of the browsers do have function to "Show in folder", again, the problem I am speaking about is that when you press on "Show in folder" indeed correct folder is being opened and as I said previously in win and osx the topical file is being preselected for you(so you see file manager application opened, a list of files where none of files are selected except the one you just downloaded), in Linux I haven't seen such a behavior(in Linux(I am not sure if it is desktop environment problem, that's why I mentioned advanced ones in previous post) - folder is being opened, but topical file isn't preselected)!

Maybe this is some fundamental problem in lower layers of software!

Or it might be just ideological?

that is not OS related, probably windows manager and gui related. These windows are not part of the browser, implemented outside and just invoked from there. The possibilities (how can you invoke it, what arguments can be used) depends on that particular implementation. For example jdownloader had the same problem (I do not know if it was solved). Probably there is no general solution...