278013 - Failure to use remembered lastDir target directory for downloads

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Valdis Kletnieks]

I invoke the 'Save As..', and it puts up a directory selector.  The 4 choices in
the pulldown are "Home", "Filesystems", a horizontal separator, and then a
displayed "Downloads" (referencing /home/valdis/Downloads), and "valdis"
(referencing /usr/src/valdis - a rarely used target for large downloads of
program source).  I select 'Downloads', and download the file.  The next time I
download something, the default target directory is again 'valdis', and I have
to select 'Downloads' again.  This behavior even persists across stopping and
restarting Firefox, even though there is no obvious place (such as prefs.js)
even *listing* /usr/src/valdis. Even doing this:

find .mozilla/firefox -type f | xargs cat | grep usr/src/valdis

finds *no* files that reference it at all.  So why does it keep coming back as a
target (which I don't mind) and listed *as the default* (which I *do* mind)?

Likely related info:

% grep download prefs.js 
user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/home/valdis/Downloads");
user_pref("browser.download.folderList", 9);
user_pref("browser.download.lastDir", "/home/valdis/Downloads");
user_pref("browser.download.save_converter_index", 0);
user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false);

lastDir isn't being honored....

Comment 1

[timeless]

when filing bugs, always include a useragent. also, are you using a gtk2 build?
if so, what versions of gtk2/gnome2 do you have?

Comment 2

[Valdis Kletnieks]

Running on Fedora Core devel tree, gtk2-2.6.0-1.

Firefox build is from the
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

chrome://global/content/about.xhtml reports
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041213 Firefox/1.0+
(Thank you, bug 272556 ;)

All builds I've tried more recent than the 12/13 one have the same problem (and
the problem was there before then as well...)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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