316299 - when i try to attach a file it says invalid file specified. please try again.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[kate21k]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

this happens for word and photos, in this yahoo account.  does not happen with safari.  I tried it from another yahoo account, and it did not happen.  i have not changed any preferences on my mail account, i am not near my limit or anything like that.  it will not let me attach any files

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a yahoo mail account
2.click compose, attach files, browse, select file
3.when you go to hit attach same thing happens

Actual Results:  
this invalid entry thing pops up

Expected Results:  
attach the file

i saw similar problems, but not exactly the same.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051112 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005111223

Works for me.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

What are the exact words of the error message? Also, does this occur in version 1.5? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

people are reporting this in camino as well. i'm attaching a jpeg of the error someone sent to me.

this might be mac-only, but i'm surprised it's not blocking anything.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot of error dialog

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 316399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you see this in FF 3.5 started in safe mode?
 https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan]

Closing as incomplete. Should the information be added this can be reopened.