296396 - Download manager "Open" takes FireFox program directory as application's "current directory"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 290735

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Thomas van Kampen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)

When you download an executable file (tested on Windows XP and 2000 only) and
you select "Open" from the download manager, the executed program takes the
FireFox program directory as it's "current directory".
This means that if the program makes files without specifying a directory, or
using some variable specifying the "current directory", those files end up in
the FireFox program directory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check the FireFox program directory.
2. Download any executable file that makes/extracts file(s) in the "current
directory". An example is Daemon Tools, which makes an install.log file.
3. Check the FireFox program directory again, the file(s) have appeared there.

Actual Results:  
Self extracting archives and executables that use the "current directory" use
the FireFox program directory.

Expected Results:  
FireFox should set the "current directory" for the executable to the target
download directory or the system's temporary directory.

I tested this on FireFox 1.0.4, on the latest FireFox nightly build as of May 28
2005 14:08 and on the latest Mozilla nightly build.
A lot more information I have posted here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1510563#1510563

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290735 ***