571827 - Popping an message for each error when 'save page as' is annoying

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

When saving some type of pages, Firefox will pop dozens of alerts whose captions are "Download Error" and contents are "C:\...\example_files\*****.jpg", where "C:\...\example.html" is the page to be saved and "*****.jpg" is the name of image that causes error.
If there are too much image error, these pop-up alerts are really annoying and take much time to clear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open this page: http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/filmtv/1/13009.shtml
*Warning* this page is very big (approx 4.21M) and may take several minutes to load.
2.File - Save Page As - Save
Actual Results:  
Dozens of "Download Error" alerts keep popping up.

Expected Results:  
Pop up one dialogue box which contains all error messages.

Comment 1

[Konomi]

I'm having this issue and I believe I found out why I think the file name paths being created are too long. So firefox spits out a bunch of errors for every single file. This needs to be fixed and is hell of a lot annoying. Confirmed.

Comment 2

[Christian Ascheberg]

Attachment: screenshot errors

(In reply to kittyinapc from comment #1)
> I'm having this issue and I believe I found out why I think the file name
> paths being created are too long. So firefox spits out a bunch of errors for
> every single file.

I think I just had the same problem on a webpage (http://www.nw-news.de/), but there is no text in the error boxes.

Comment 3

[Christian Ascheberg]

Attachment: screenshot

I could not reproduce the problem with the empty error messages, so here is an updated screenshot.

Comment 4

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

The website from the description,  http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/filmtv/1/13009.shtml, isn't available anymore. It redirects me to: http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-filmtv-13009-1.shtml. Saving this webpage worked as expected, with Firefox 18.0.1 (build ID: 20130116073211) and on the latest Nightly also (build ID: 20130128030943).

With http://www.nw-news.de/news/nachrichten/7772670_Konflikte_Syrien.html, the saving worked smoothly, both on Firefox 18.0.1 and latest Nightly.


With http://www.nw-news.de/, I did see the problem with the empty error messages that kept on appearing on the screen, even though I kept on closing them, both on Firefox 18.0.1 and the latest Nightly. (eventually the messages stopped appearing, and in the library window the download was listed as failed)

Comment 5

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I get the same behavior as detailed in comment 4, with Firefox 19 beta 3. (build ID: 20130123083802)