283801 - Tries to overwrite a desktop shortcut instead of opening the directory when finding a place to save a download

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[terrascorcher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

When I download a file (any extension) from the Internet, it asks where I want
to save it.  If I select a directory it works fine, but if I select a shortcut
to a directory then it will try to save over the shortcut file instead of
following the shortcut to the directory I want.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a shortcut on your windows desktop called Test and make it point to
any directory on your PC.
2. Go back to Firefox and download any file.
3. It will ask to open or save the file, select Save.
3. Choose the Test shortcut from your desktop.

Actual Results:  
It asks if I want to save over the Test shortcut file.

Expected Results:  
Should follow the link in the shortcut.

Only started doing this in the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283730 ***