263217 - Can't save anything locally, include auto proxy config since 1.8a4

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ian Batterbee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 1.8a4

I know I'm dicing with death by running an alpha, but I was doing it
intentionally to test another bug... after I had done testing that one, I
discovered that mozilla seemed unable to save anything any more.  I can't
believe this hasn't already been reported, so apologies in advance for this
likely dupe.. I did *try* and find another report before filing this.

If I right click on an image, and do 'save image as' (or open the image directly
in mozilla and do save page as), everything looks like it worked, but the file
is not created.

I then noticed that I was unable to save a .exe file that I was trying to
download - mozilla prompted with a dialog saying it couldn't open 'xxx', where
xxx was the a filename in my local temp directory. The filename looked okay.

Then I found that it was even unable to save the auto proxy config file locally,
and so failed to load it, which meant I couldn't get out (we have port 80
blocked here, so must use the proxy).  While typing this, I realised I should
have tried setting the proxy settings manually, but it's too late now - I've
already reinstalled 1.7.3

Is anyone else seeing this ? I've seen it on two machines on two different
networks now, both running windows 2000 sp4.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. try and save a link

Actual Results:  
nothing gets saved

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Can you look if deleting compreg.dat in your components folder (in your Mozilla
program folder) helps? If yes, this is Dupe of Bug 180672

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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