255379 - Firefox remembers two distinct download directories

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Daniel Wagner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

There are two different methods of downloading a file, and they each remember
their own "last directory."  They should both use and update the same thing. 
The applicable preferences are "browser.download.dir" and
"browser.download.lastDir".  These two should be merged.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove any automatic action associated with *.zip files.  [Optional
Replacement: Choose a file type for which there is no automatic action.]
2. Navigate to http://www.geocities.com/dmwit/ [Opt. Rep.: Find or create a web
page with a link to the file type chosen in Step 1.]
3. Click Zork 3. [OR: Click the link found in Step 2.]
4. Choose "Save to disk" and save in directory FOO.
5. Right-click Zork 3. [OR: Right-click the link found in Step 2.]
6. Choose "Save link as..." from context menu and save in directory BAR.
7. Repeat Step 3 and choose "Save to disk"
Actual Results:  
The dialog box is opened in directory FOO.

Expected Results:  
The dialog box should be opened in directory BAR.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wagner]

(In reply to comment #0)
Oh yeah, and the workaround: Just navigate to the folder you want to save to,
you lazy, complaining bum!

~d

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Confirmed using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5)
Gecko/20050926 Firefox/1.4.

Comment 4

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 322733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 341104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also:
bug 229547, "Save all files to this folder" doesn't apply to "Save Image as..."
bug 251082, Locations for saving web pages and images should be separate
bug 325242, Files opened by helper application are saved to desktop when different download folder is set.

Comment 7

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Jim, did your work fix this by chance?

Comment 8

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Yes I believe it did. I merged a number of download dir prefs in that patch.  

Comment 9

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

As per Comment 8