1893522 - Default download location does not work if target is a symlink

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[Cristian]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Steps to reproduce:

I'm using Firefox 125 on Linux Ubuntu 23.10.
My /home/cristian/Downloads folder is a symlink that points to a folder on another drive. I want to setup Firefox so that the default download folder is this Downloads folder. So I went to Settings, and under "Files and Applications", on "Save Files to" I clicked on Browse, and pointed to my /home/cristian/Downloads folder.

Actual results:

The destination folder field changed to "/run/user/1000/doc/7db093c1/Downloads⁩" instead of "/home/cristian/Downloads".

Expected results:

Firefox should have accepted the folder I selected. As another possibility, it could have pointed to the symlink's target folder.

I should add that if I choose a different folder that is not a symlink (i.e. /home/cristian/Documents) it works as expected. The problem is only with symlinks.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 2

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

I guess the /run/user/1000/doc/7db093c1/Downloads⁩ is real path where the symlink points to, right?
I think that's a problem with Gtk path selector which follows the symlink.

Comment 3

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Does it work if you create /home/cristian/Downloads directory first, select it as Firefox download destinations and then replace it with a symlink? Does Firefox download to /run/user/1000/doc/7db093c1/Downloads⁩ then?

Comment 4

[Cristian]

(In reply to Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me) from comment #2)

I guess the /run/user/1000/doc/7db093c1/Downloads⁩ is real path where the symlink points to, right?
I think that's a problem with Gtk path selector which follows the symlink.

It's not, actually. The symlink points to a different drive, the path is something like /Storage/Downloads.

(In reply to Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me) from comment #3)

Does it work if you create /home/cristian/Downloads directory first, select it as Firefox download destinations and then replace it with a symlink? Does Firefox download to /run/user/1000/doc/7db093c1/Downloads⁩ then?

That folder already existed, as it's the default Ubuntu download folder. And I think it's the default Firefox download folder.

Comment 5

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

So looks like the open dialog fails to select symlinked download dir and falls back to default one instead.