284885 - 'Dowload Folder' preference dialog won't accept my selection

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[walter sheets]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050305 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050305 Firefox/1.0+

The Download Folder preference dialog won't accept my home directory as the
place to put downloads.  It insists on selecting my Desktop directory even
though I don't tell it to.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Edit::Preferences::Downloads::Save all files to this folder:
2.Click on 'Browse' and navigate to /home and select your home directory.
3.Click on 'Open' (which should be named OK instead of Open) to accept.
Actual Results:  
The result is that 'Desktop' is the location instead of my home directory

Expected Results:  
It should accept my home directory as a location.

Comment 1

[walter sheets]

Forgot to mention that this is firefox(head) compiled from today's CVS sources.

Comment 2

[walter sheets]

I'm sorry, I misinterpreted what I was seeing:  firefox *does* in fact set the
download directory to what I told it (my home directory).

This is what was confusing me (and I do think it's buggy behavior):  the next
time I open the Preferences dialog box to set the default download location,
it still displays 'Desktop' which implies that Desktop is the current value.

It seems the title of this bug report should be changed to:  The Set-Default-
Download-Directory dialog window does not display the current setting.

FWIW, thunderbird(head) seems to have a similar problem with its 'Attachments'
settings -- probably not surprising.

Comment 3

[walter sheets]

(In reply to comment #2)
 
> FWIW, thunderbird(head) seems to have a similar problem with its 'Attachments'
> settings

As of this morning's CVS update, thunderbird no longer has this bug, but firefox
still does.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change