406352 - Downloads always go to Desktop, regardless of directory specified in Preferences

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 311292

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Ben Fischer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

In the preference pane, I set the down load directory to something other than the Desktop, but that directory is not used.  I have tried different directories, but no matter what, downloads end up on the Desktop.  Specifically, I'm downloading a PDF file to test out.

I have tried restarting Firefox after setting the download directory and upgraded to the latest version on firefox.com, but no change.

My operating system is Mac OS X 10.5.1.  I have specifically tried to set the download directory to the Downloads folder (new to Leopard) and to the Documents folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.irs.gov/publications/index.html
2. click on "PDF" under publication 1
3. PDF downloads to Desktop and opens.
Actual Results:  
PDF "P1.PDF" downloads to desktop.

Expected Results:  
It should have downloaded to "/usr/.../Documents"

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup.