967939 - Wrong download dir locked up after 27.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 958899

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[hong620]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140127194636

Steps to reproduce:

download the file (not 'save as ...')


Actual results:

FF 27 ignore download direction setting (even edit about:config)
and compulsory save file to Windows default download [C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Downloads] directory

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Was the download destination you told Firefox to use the root of the drive (e.g. "C:\" or "E:\" ) ?

Comment 2

[hong620]

no, C:\Users\hong620\Downloads
not on root.

it's apear right after 26.x -> 27.0 update.

'save as ...' function is okay.

i'll reset some of involved config string value about browser.download but still malfunction.

Comment 3

[meathead_bmc]

Having same issue since V26->V27 upgrade.  Downloads default to C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Downloads instead of specified drive.  Reset the download location several times but still happens.

I do have the directory set to the root level but I've had it set that way since Firefox 1 and it's always worked.

Comment 4

[iamjayakumars]

Same issue in Mac OS X also.

Comment 5

[hong620]

still issue in 27.0.1

Comment 6

[Radek]

Same issue in 27.0.1 on Win8.1 but just when download directory is set up into the root for example D:
When its changed into the directory, then its working fine.

Comment 7

[hong620]

(In reply to Radek from comment #6)
> Same issue in 27.0.1 on Win8.1 but just when download directory is set up
> into the root for example D:
> When its changed into the directory, then its working fine.

i'm testing on drives root (ex: C: D: E: F: G: H: I:)
but mine is not save to each roots. still saved in [C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\Downloads]
it's strange..

Comment 8

[meathead_bmc]

Yep issue continues with v27.0.1

Problem exists only when setting the downloads directory to the root of a drive.  If this is by design I could understand not saving to root level of the boot drive but other drives I don't understand.

Comment 9

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to hong620 from comment #2)
> no, C:\Users\hong620\Downloads
> not on root.
> 
> it's apear right after 26.x -> 27.0 update.
> 
> 'save as ...' function is okay.
> 
> i'll reset some of involved config string value about browser.download but
> still malfunction.

My question was about where you *wanted* the file to be saved, not where it *was* eventually saved. Per the later comments, this is a dupe of bug 958899