Closed Bug 286928 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

During Save As Dialog, clicking on a windows shortcut (.lnk) file does not follow the link but tries to save over the shortuct file itself.

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

People

(Reporter: herrnoel, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Summary says it all.  Totally annoying issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Save any file with the save as command
2.in the save as dialog, click on a windows shortcut directory
3.

Actual Results:  
firefox won't change to that directory but instead change the title of the file
to be saved to the name of the shortcut file (a .lnk file)

Expected Results:  
The shortcut should be followed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283730 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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