474235 - Use NS_FOLDER_VALUE_DOWNLOADS as default for download folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 384068

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090117 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre Ubiquity/0.1.4 ID:20090117020415

With the patch on bug 454242 users can choose between different download locations. The following options are available:

0: Desktop
1: System Download folder
2: User specified folder

With each new profile or after an upgrade from FF3.0 to FF3.1 the users desktop is cluttered with temporary files. That happens because "browser.download.folderList" automatically routes to Deskop. To improve the file handling for helper applications and to use the by Apple specified Download folder this pref should be initially created with a value of 1 on OS X 10.5. I don't know about the behavior of OS X 10.4 anymore.

What about migration from Safari? On 10.5 the download folder will be set to ~/Downloads. Currently we only check for Desktop and not for Downloads:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/migration/src/nsSafariProfileMigrator.cpp#482

Asking for blocking1.9.1 because of the amount of negative user feedback.