250118 - Download folder set to "Desktop" ignores custom Windows Desktop folder setting

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 228977

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Doug Emery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Tools > Options ... > Downloads: "Save all files to this folder:" was set to
"Desktop" by default.  However, it points the folder "c:\Documents and
Settings\MyUser\Desktop", which is not my Desktop folder.  I use a custom
desktop folder: "E:\MyUser\Desktop"
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders\Desktop).  Firefox downloads files to the wrong folder.

This value is correctly detected by the recent version of 0.8 I downloaded
(http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/FirefoxSetup.exe).
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change Desktop location (I used Tweak UI:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx)
2. Install Firefox (default download folder s/b Desktop, unless this setting is
grabbed from Mozilla)
3. Download a file

Actual Results:  
File is Downloaded to c:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Desktop


Expected Results:  
Download the file to E:\MyUser\Desktop

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is probably bug 228977, which was just fixed.

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228977 ***