289900 - Trying to access windows folder shortcut (.lnk) asks to overwrite file instead of opening the folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Alan Smith]

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

When trying to save an image from a website (right-click > save image as), and
then browsing throught the local folder system, if I double click on a windows
shortcut (*.lnk file) to a folder, the dialog will ask if I want to overwrite
the *.lnk file instead of opening the folder to which the shortcut points.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a shortcut to a folder (local folder or networked)
2. open any webpage and choose an image to save locally
3. right click > save image as...
4. find your folder shortcut
5. double-click shortcut.  It will ask to overwrite the .lnk file instead of
providing a shortcut to the folder.

Actual Results:  
Dialog asking to confirm overwriting of *.lnk file

Expected Results:  
Gone to the folder that is referenced in the shortcut

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

See 

Bug 283730 "Save As" dialog tries to overwrite link/shortcut (.lnk) file 
instead of opening the directory/folder"

and 

Bug 271732 "COMMAND.COM is overwritten by downloading the pif file"

It is not my platform, but I suspect that this report is dup of something!

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

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