288769 - In Save dialog windows, when you click on a folder shortcut it is treated as the file to replace instead of opening the related folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Juan C Walls]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

When you try to save a page, link, image or whenever you get a system Save
dialog window, if you try to double click on a folder shortcut to get to the
related folder, instead of that, the program assumes the shortcut is the file
you want to replace, so you can't access a folder using shortcuts but only
through the complete route of real units and folders. NOTE 1: Shortcuts in File
Open windows semm to work properly. NOTE 2: This same problem happens in MSN
Messenger when you try to send a file to other user but in MSN Messenger is a
File Open dialog window what causes the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open My PC and then C:\
2. Create a shortcut at the desktop of any folder in C:
3. in Firefox browse to any page
4. Ctrl+S
5. Go to Desktop and try to click on the Folder Shortcut icon you just created
to open the related folder.

Actual Results:  
Instead of opening the folder, Firefox thinks you want to replace the shortcut
file with the file you're trying to save.

Expected Results:  
Open the folder related to the folder shortcut.

Comment 1

[timeless]

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