Comment 23 for bug 558674

I am running a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop, dual boot with 7HP64, and I have this same problem.

I didn't have this problem yesterday, but I have it today. Have not rebooted, have not changed anything. But I think I can outline the steps I took to produce this problem.

2 Chrome windows. One has 1 tab open (where I am submitting the file to a website using a Browse button). The other has 20 tabs open to different websites where I am saving pictures to my hard drive. I went to a tab, saved the picture I needed in /home/user_name/pictures/folder_name and then repeated this for each tab. I then went to the other window to submit one of the photos. When the file dialog window came up, there were 20 pictures to choose from so I sorted by name. I picked the one I wanted which was 7th down on the list. I clicked Open and the correct filename appeared next to the Browse button. After filling in the other form information (business name, address, etc) I submitted the form. The wrong file was uploaded. The file that was uploaded was 1st in the list, not 7th.

I tried what other users above have tried and it didn't change anything. That first file was the one uploaded.

So I tried using Firefox the same way. 20 tabs in one window, one tab in the other. It did the same thing. Uploaded whatever file had been saved last into that directory, which in this case was alphabetically first.

Here's the kicker. The website uses Ubuntu on their server as well with Apache 2.24 or something like that. So I went to the other end of my house and got on my wife's Windows computer. I opened the site with the picture I needed, opened another tab and went to the edit page for the form I submitted, and tried to change the picture, and it wouldn't change it. I have since booted into Windows on this computer and tried and it still won't work. I had to delete the form and start over to get it to go in right. Very annoying.

So now I'm having to do my work in the mornings in Windows and then I can boot into Ubuntu for the rest of the day.

I will try to reproduce this bug with smaller numbers of tabs because I can imagine how irritating it would be to open up 20 tabs just to reproduce a bug for debugging purposes. This is just my experience from early this morning.