299042 - "Ask me where to save every file" preference is not honored

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 284089

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect, P1)

Description

[Inactive]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Setting "Ask me where to save every file" preference results in no change to
download behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the Downloads preference panel.
2.Select "Ask me where to save every file".
3.Download a file.


Actual Results:  
Save location dialog does not open and file is saved to default location.

Expected Results:  
Save location dialog should open and file should save to user selected location.

Comment 1

[Inactive]

UA of affected version is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628
Firefox/1.0+

Firefox 1.0.4 does not exhibit this behavior.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I see the same. WFM for the last time in  Build ID 2005062701.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Ria, between which 2 builds did this regress ?

Comment 4

[Jindrich Pozlovsky]

Same problem occur on Linux. 
 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+ 

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Confirmed, also Problem in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In reply to comment #3, the next build I had was ID 2005062800, which gave only
errors ( # 298478 )

Comment 7

[Tim Meader]

Is it possible that the fix for 298478 caused the regression?

Comment 8

[Tim Meader]

Not positive, but it appears that the fixes checked in from
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287111 directly affect the prefs
used for downloading.

Comment 9

[Jim Ginn]

Related(?): Bug 284089, Bug 249591, and Bug 276004

Comment 10

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Does it work for you after a restart?

Comment 11

[Inactive]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Does it work for you after a restart?

No, it remains the same.

Comment 12

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

repro with existing profile and set "ask me where to save every file" :
1.open FF
2.Open Options ->Downloads and change to "download to save all files to this
folder" (use desktop or choose a folder)
3.Download a file by clicking on it
4.Open Options ->Downloads and change to "ask me where to save every file"
5.Download something

 It won't ask you where to anymore, not even after restart.

I tried with
with existing profile and set "ask me where to save every file"
step 1
step 2 + restart
step 3 + restart
step 4 + restart
step 5

and it worked normal

Comment 13

[Sébastien Auger]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Does it work for you after a restart?

no, it doesn't.

i think the patch for 298478 may have caused this.

Comment 14

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

so it seems we're setting useDownloadFolder folder in the pref window check for
it in contentAreaUtils, and never use it (even before the contentAreUtils
patch), fun.

Comment 15

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Note also bug 284089.

Comment 16

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 299059 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 299039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 299038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 299079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

This is basicly bug 284089, I don't see anything difference between the former
builds to the lastest one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284089 ***

Comment 21

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified dupe