256701 - Download to desktop (default location) uses wrong registry key

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 228977

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Jesper Hertel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

When I download to the desktop (automatically, using the default location), the
download does not end on my desktop. 

It is put in the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\jh.MAGNUS\Desktop", which is
not my desktop folder. The user is correct (I am the jh.MAGNUS user), but in the
Windows registry I have changed the path to my desktop to "F:\Prod\jh\Skrivebord".

The key I used to change this is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell
Folders\Desktop

and I am quite sure that Firefox should use the key

reg:\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders\Desktop

to get the expanded path for the user's Desktop.

The second key is an expanded version of the first.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change the above mentioned registry key to something, e.g. c:\test.
2. Download a file using default settings in Firefox.

Actual Results:  
The file did not end up in the c:\test folder.

The file ended up in the "C:\Documents and Settings\jh.MAGNUS\Desktop" folder.


Expected Results:  
The file should have ended up in the c:\test folder.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

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