Distribution: Manjaro
Desktop environment: KDE Plasma (disabled desktop folder view so it doesn't create ~/Desktop)

Whenever i launch Waterfox-classic, it creates ~/Desktop. I can delete it afterwards but it gets created again the next time i run it. In about:preferences, the download location is set to my home folder.

Why does this happen, and how do I make it stop?

(i could not imagine any way to ask this question to google)

EDIT, additional info: If i delete ~/Desktop while Waterfox is running, it doesn't get created again until i run Waterfox again.

Could it be that Waterfox is configured to download files to Desktop?

I had this idea when reading https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topi...prings-a-leak/, a site I found by googling

I should've added this information. I've already set the download location to my home folder from before I posted this.

What did you google to find that site anyway?

UPDATE:

I really need to try harder with troubleshooting. Don't know if it was an update or what, but it just doesn't do it anymore. Problem's gone. Or at least it's not doing it right now.

This is going to be related to xdg basedir specification. Something, probably Waterfox itself, is interpreting these variables (see also XDG user directories on the Arch wiki) and generating XDG_DESKTOP_DIR which by default (i.e., if left undefined) is ~/Desktop.

For what reason it always generates this is a very deep topic, but it probably includes mundane things like, "Check if we already have a shortcut on the desktop" in the same vein as "Are we the default browser," or perhaps "Need a default location for downloads" and your always-save-to location in Waterfox settings might be this Desktop directory.

I don't have any creative ideas about which specific variable or which specific value will suppress this behavior, because the exact reason why it wants to make that directory is unclear. But if you play around with these and keep starting Waterfox Classic over and over again, maybe you'll hit a winning combination.