295967 - Firefox conseder .lnk short cuts to directory as a file

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Motaz Abuthiab]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When you choose to save a file in a directory, reaching this directory  by a 
short cut in the desktop or other pleace, firefox asks you to over write the 
shortcut (or the link)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on the image or file
2.select save as.. from the menu
3.select the short cut of the directory
4.firefox ask you to overwrite

Actual Results:  
By overwriting the short cut, you lose the link of the directory and it saves 
the file with .lnk extension

Expected Results:  
go to the linked (target) directory

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

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