299152 - Firefox treats windows directory shortcuts as files, rather than as directories

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[eliskim]

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

When downloading or saving content in Firefox, the Windows browse dialog doesn't
follow shortcuts through to their linked paths.  Instead, Firefox treats them as
ordinary files.  Essentially, Firefox ignores shortcuts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using Windows XP, create a shortcut to a folder in Windows Explorer.
2. Using Firefox, from any website, do File/Save As and try to use the shortcut
to open a new directory.
Actual Results:  
Firefox asks if you want to overwrite the shortcut, rather than opening the
linked directory.

Expected Results:  
Should open the shortcuted directory, rather than overwriting the shortcut file.

Other softwares written on the Windows platform perform this behavior correctly.
 EG, iTunes 4.8.0.32 does this just fine.

Comment 1

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

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