280150 - Download Manager uses hardcoded path for 'Desktop' C:\Documents And Settings\User\Desktop and not the registry path to the user's desktop

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 265934

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Olekas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Specific: I have a different system path for my desktop it being 'E:\Documents
And Settings\Administrator\Desktop' and within FF options, I have downloads sent
to 'Desktop'. I would expect that the downloads I made would be to 'E:\Documents
And Settings\Administrator\Desktop' however, this is not the case. The downloads
go to 'C:\Documents And Settings\Administrator\Desktop' instead. 

I believe that FF should pull the path for the Desktop from the registry, no?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using a tool such as TweakUI, change the path of you're desktop from
'C:\Documents And Settings\Administrator\Desktop' to a unique address such as
'E:\Desktop'
2. Download a file using Firefox
3. You will notice that the file will be saved to 'C:\Documents And
Settings\Administrator\Desktop' and not to 'E:\Desktop' even though 'E:\Desktop'
is now the directory which holds your desktop icons

Actual Results:  
The files which were downloaded were found to exist in 'C:\Documents And
Settings\Administrator\Desktop' 

Expected Results:  
The files should have been downloaded to 'E:\Desktop'

I've used TweakUI to change the WinXP system variable for my Desktop so that it
is found in 'E:\Documents And Settings\Administrator\Desktop\' and not
'C:\Documents And Settings\Administrator\Desktop\'

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

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

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265934 ***