1488267 - Normal mode file upload dialog opens the latest private mode save file location

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[guneyozsan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180807170231

Steps to reproduce:

- Enable restore session option.
- Visit some web pages in normal mode and leave them open.
- Open a private window and visit a page.
- In private mode, save a media file (image) to disk.
- Close private mode windows.
- Exit Firefox from menu/exit or by ctrl+shift+q (Restarting Firefox is optional but good to know that this bug transfers to further sessions).
- Start Firefox.
- In normal mode, visit a page with upload media (image) option (for me it was Wordpress admin, media management).
- Click upload.


Actual results:

The system upload dialog will open the latest private mode save location for browsing.


Expected results:

The system upload dialog should open at the latest normal mode save location or default location for browsing.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

I can't reproduce this. When I try to upload a file I just get put on the desktop folder in the filepicker. Tested on macOS, with current nightly/trunk Firefox.

Please can you provide some more details:

1) have you tested with a clean profile ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles ) to exclude the possibility of add-ons or your profile's preferences interfering with anything?
2) does the restore session pref matter? Why, especially if omitting the step where you restart Firefox, which you say is optional?
3) can you provide more explicit/exact instructions to exclude the possibility of the details here mattering, that is:
-- an example website where you save an image from (suited for work, please) that you can reproduce with
-- exactly how you save the image (do you open it in its own tab first? context menu? shortcut? add-on? something else?)
-- an example website where you use the "file open" dialog that you can reproduce with


Here are my exact steps:

1. open latest Firefox Nightly with a clean profile on macOS
2. enable session restore from the prefs, close the prefs (do not restart the browser)
3. open private window
4. load google.com in the private window
5. right click the google logo
6. click 'save image as...'
7. save in unique folder, accept
8. wait for download to finish, close private window.
9. open new tab in normal window with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file .
10. click browse button. I get the desktop folder preselected.
11. click cancel on the dialog, close the tab, then close Firefox.
12. reopen Firefox
13. open https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file in a new tab again
14. click [browse...] again. I still get the desktop folder preselected.

Comment 2

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

I'm going to mark this incomplete until the reporter gets back with more information about it.