956709 - Firefox creates Desktop folder each time it opens Open file dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 922719

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[mhroncok]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.48 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Happens on Linux - Fedora.

1. Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs so thet you have no Desktop (XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME")
2. Probbaly log out and in after the chnage, not sure
3. Remove old Desktop folder if you have one
4. Run Firefox and push any Browse... button (file uplad dialog, you can use upload attachment here on bugzilla)




Actual results:

Open/select file dialog is openned in ~/Desktop and the folder is created.

My locales are set to Czech and Desktop folder is named in English.


Expected results:

Open/select file dialog is openned either in last location or in ~.

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please try the following :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 2

[mhroncok]

I can reproduce this with clean profile in safe mode.

$ file Desktop
Desktop: ERROR: cannot open `Desktop' (No such file or directory)
$ rm .mozilla -rf
$ firefox -safe-mode

...

$ file Desktop/
Desktop/: directory