101944 - Mozilla file browser unable for follow directory soft links

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92329

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[stoilis]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091311

Mozilla cannot follow directory soft links from the "File"->"Open File..." using
the mouse pointer. You can see the soft-linked directory but you cannot
double-click to access it. Instead, if you select it and hit the "Open" Button,
the directory is accessed normally. The access is also normal if you type the
directory name and hit Enter

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a symlink to a directory, for example: mkdir /tmp/test ; ln -s
/tmp/test /tmp/link-dir
2. Go the menu "File" and the to the "Open File...". The File browser pops up.
3. Using the mouse, try to go into the /tmp/link-dir directory. You just can't.
Double clicking seems to have no effect on it.
4. Now try to just select it and then press the "Open" button. This works just
fine, you enter the directory as you should.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should follow any directory soft link

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

dup of Bug 92329
  GetTarget doesn't handle relative symlinks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92329 ***

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

or, rather, bug 93970 for the actual filepicker, but whichever.