diff -r 9d0abe25b162 toolkit/components/downloads/src/nsDownloadManager.cpp
--- a/toolkit/components/downloads/src/nsDownloadManager.cpp	Mon Feb 16 16:02:21 2009 -0800
+++ b/toolkit/components/downloads/src/nsDownloadManager.cpp	Thu Feb 19 00:38:35 2009 -0400
@@ -1331,6 +1331,16 @@
     }
   }
 #elif defined(XP_UNIX)
+#if defined(NS_OSSO)
+    // As maemo does not follow the XDG "standard" (as usually desktop
+    // Linux distros do) neither has a working $HOME/Desktop folder
+    // for us to fallback into, "$HOME/MyDocs/.documents/" is the folder
+    // we found most apropriate to be the default target folder for downloads
+    // on the platform.
+    rv = dirService->Get(NS_UNIX_XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR,
+                         NS_GET_IID(nsILocalFile),
+                         getter_AddRefs(downloadDir));
+#else
   rv = dirService->Get(NS_UNIX_DEFAULT_DOWNLOAD_DIR,
                        NS_GET_IID(nsILocalFile),
                        getter_AddRefs(downloadDir));
@@ -1343,6 +1353,7 @@
     rv = downloadDir->Append(folderName);
     NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv);
   }
+#endif
 #else
   rv = dirService->Get(NS_OS_HOME_DIR,
                        NS_GET_IID(nsILocalFile),
diff -r 9d0abe25b162 xpcom/io/SpecialSystemDirectory.cpp
--- a/xpcom/io/SpecialSystemDirectory.cpp	Mon Feb 16 16:02:21 2009 -0800
+++ b/xpcom/io/SpecialSystemDirectory.cpp	Thu Feb 19 00:38:35 2009 -0400
@@ -434,10 +434,28 @@
             return rv;
 
         rv = file->AppendNative(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING("Desktop"));
-    } else {
+    }
+#if defined(NS_OSSO)
+    // "MYDOCSDIR" is exported to point to "/home/user/MyDocs" in maemo.
+    else if (Unix_XDG_Documents == aSystemDirectory) {
+
+        char *myDocs = PR_GetEnv("MYDOCSDIR");
+        if (!myDocs || !*myDocs)
+            return NS_ERROR_FAILURE;
+
+        rv = NS_NewNativeLocalFile(nsDependentCString(myDocs), PR_TRUE,
+                                   getter_AddRefs(file));
+        if (NS_FAILED(rv))
+            return rv;
+
+        rv = file->AppendNative(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING(".documents"));
+    }
+#else
+    else {
       // no fallback for the other XDG dirs
       rv = NS_ERROR_FAILURE;
     }
+#endif
 
     if (NS_FAILED(rv))
         return rv;