287614 - Save As dialog doesn't understand Windows shortcuts (LNK files)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[RBL]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Double-clicking a shortcut to a folder generates an file overwrite warning
message, when it should instead open the folder and allow disk browsing to continue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a shortcut to a folder on your hard disk.
2. Initiate any type of file or page element download.
3. When the "Save" dialog opens, double-click the shortcut to the folder.

Actual Results:  
Message box appears and asks "[filename] already exists. Are you sure you want
to replace it?"


Opened the folder as all other Windows software does. This is fundamental to the OS.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283730 ***