Some friends and I were discussing about the inability to open the Downloads folder from the Stack on the dock, when the stack is fanned.
I don’t like the grid view (I have one, it is called the Finder) so I use fanned, sorted with newest at the bottom.
You can open the Downloads folder’s parent by command-clicking on the fanned Downloads stack, but not the folder itself.
Well, yes you can. You command-click on an item in the fanned Downloads stack. The Finder will then open the Downloads folder and select that item.
P.S. Or click the “n more in Finder” at the very top of the stack, but it is so far away, it is quicker to just command-click the bottom item.
And the “Open in Finder” item shown along with the contents when you open the stack.
Corrected to mention I used fanned stacks.