326257 - user_pref settings like browser.download.dir or browser.download.downloadDir are the same for all operating systems

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[bookar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

When user has two or more operating systems on one machine with shared firefox profile downloading to a defined directory works only on one of these operating systems. I have set my download directory on Windows to D:\Downloading\Mozilla Firefox. When I switch to Linux and try to download something firefox doesn't even start downloading. I have to change download directory in preferences or right-click and "save link as".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Share profile between Windows and Linux
2. Set default download directory on either of systems
3. Switch to another system
4. Download something

Actual Results:  
Firefox doesn't start downloading

Expected Results:  
Firefox should remember download directories for different operating systems - that would solve the problem.

I use dowload statusbar but it probably doesn't matter.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

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