v5.3.1 keeps creating notebooks at toplevel dir (notebook_dir) regardless of location.

[draperjames]

I've seen this problem manifest on Linux Mint 18.3, Windows 7 and Windows 10 running FireFox 57.0.4 (64-bit).

When I start Jupyter Notebook my browser launches to http://localhost:8888/tree then I navigate to a subdir let's call it my_notebooks when I the New button and select the type of notebook I want the notebook is created back at the toplevel dir http://localhost:8888/tree.

This might not be connected but I noticed that the changelog
has this line:

• Use DOM History API for navigating between directories in the file browser (:ghpull:3115).

I have Firefox's privacy settings set to never remember history. Would that break the new navigation method?

[sarmoho]

I have the same problem in chrome with Windows10 since conda update notebook --update-dependencies from defaul notebook version of Anaconda3(notebook v5.0.0)

[draperjames]

@sarmoho I find that down-grading to v5.2.1 fixes the problem right away. I think that I use the following commands from a administrator prompt;

conda uninstall notebook
pip install notebook==5.2.1 

[takluyver]

You were quite right about PR #3115 being the culprit, but the issue is there even with the default browser settings. #3263 should fix it.