285914 - Dowloading unrecognized file type causes excessive floppy seeks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 284652

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Lawrence Worth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When I right click and "Save Link As..." on any file, Firefox first seeks my
floppy drive about 12 trillion times.  Then it downloads nicely.  Then it
sometimes seeks a few more times.  I think the reason is that Windows somehow
suggests A: as a default download location for idiotic reasons.  (Downloading to
the harddrive doesn't disabuse it of this assumption for the next download.)  As
a result, downloads take a lot longer and make annoying sounds :).  Mozilla
didn't do this; it's new with Firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(As described above.)
Actual Results:  
Lots of seeks.  (And no, I don't have a virus.)

Expected Results:  
The download manager should remember the last place I downloaded something, and
just bring up a dialog defaulting to that location.  Unless it was in fact A:,
it shouldn't be looking there.

Comment 1

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284652 ***