246528 - When I try to download ANY file, I get the error message as shown above.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

When I click on a file to download, it downloads fine and then I get the above
error message 100% of the time and the file is not saved.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try and download a file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
failure with error message shown.

Expected Results:  
should work

This was also reported in 17rc2 and it is still broken.

Comment 1

[Joe Mehaffey]

The bug is still present in the released version of Mozilla 1.7.  I am unable to
download ANY file by using the Mozilla download manager.  The file appears to
download but at the end when it should be asking you were to store the file, you
get the error message shown at:
http://www.gpsinformation.org/joe/misc/moz17releasedownloaderror.jpg

This problem was not in 1.7rc1 but it was in 1.7rc2, 1.7rc3 and now also in 1.7
release.  Can we fix this PLEASE!

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

see duplicate Bug 249637

Comment 3

[Joe Mehaffey]

On good advice from ostgote,  I went to Mozilla
Browser>Edit>preferences>Navigator>helper applications.  Then I deleted the one
with <autorun.inf> and now I can download files just FINE..  

Many thanks to ostgote!!!

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

Nothing in Mozilla was broken or fixed.

->WORKSFORME

Comment 5

[Joe Mehaffey]

Actually Jason, I think we can say that a) If some Major Mozilla feature does
not work, it is broken and b) If the user does nothing to "break" something in
Mozilla then some sort of "bug" did the breaking and c) If something WAS working
and then QUITS working when the user upgraded from one version of software to
another and  WITHOUT THE USER MAKING SOME CHANGE TO DO IT, then Mozilla has a
problem.

This is not the first time in Mozilla's history that an upgrade from one
software version to another failed to properly handle some periphreal issue.

I know that some software guys have a problem with this sort of thinking,  but
you will fix a LOT more user problems if you think of problems as "problems"
instead of "dumb users"