[Bug 375894] [NEW] Working directory for firefox is not users home dir.

[Jarl]

Public bug reported:

On Kubuntu Jaunty when I start firefox from the menu the working
directory is "!/Dokumenter" (danish for "~/Documents"), this causes
problems for homebanker applets.

When login into my homebank (using icedtea6-plugin) I therefore manually
have to find the private key file (named EBJKS.ebjkeystore) which is
located in my home-dir. Further when I later have to confirm
transactions it fails again because it cannot find the private key-file.
When starting firefox in my home-dir, the login applet automatically
finds my private key file and fills out the usernumber (I only have to
supply a password).

A quick workaround is of course to create your own
~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop file with a entry for "Path"
specifying your home-dir. However it would be a huge improvement to
ubuntu if this was not necessary for all users to do.

The fix should be applied to the file
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop, hence it is repoorted to
firefox-3.0-branding.

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: applet firefox homebanking icedtea java netbanking

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Working directory for firefox is not users home dir.
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