298941 - won't traverse a shortcut to a storage location in browsing to a place to save a download file

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Larry Trudeau]

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

I have created shortcuts that will take me to various mapped drives and directories.
If I click on one of these shortcuts in browsing to a location to store a
download file, firefox says "ABC.lnk already exists.  Do you want to replace it?
Internet Explorer takes you to the location the link directs it to, which is the
more logical and useful action.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reproduction is self-evident
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Actual Results:  
you can't use a shortcut to assist dive and directory traversing

Expected Results:  
Internet Explorer takes you to the location the link directs it to, which is the
more logical and useful action.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

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