1370848 - After downloading a linked pdf file then entering a new url the file is downloaded again

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[rhogenson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Build ID: 20170529182308

Steps to reproduce:

Open a page with a pdf download link, such as https://duckduckgo.com/?q=example+pdf
Click a link to download the pdf file. Any link on the page above should suffice.
Type into the url bar a new url, such as https://fsf.org


Actual results:

The pdf file is downloaded for a second time. The first time was when the link was clicked, then again instead of the new url being loaded.


Expected results:

Instead of downloading the pdf, the new url should have been loaded.

Comment 1

[vihsa]

i cannot repro on both 53.0 & nightly.

does the file is downloaded second time during downloading of file or when download is finished ?

Comment 2

[vihsa]

please ignore my question in comment 1, i misinterpreted the meaning of bug title.

Comment 3

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath]]

Thank you for your report. I couldn't reproduce this bug on Nightly 55 or Fennec 53. Could you install the latest Nightly build and verify if you still encounter the same issue?: http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/nightly/2017/06/
If so, please give us more details about the device you are using.

Comment 4

[vihsa]

(In reply to Oana Horvath from comment #3)
> Thank you for your report. I couldn't reproduce this bug on Nightly 55 or
> Fennec 53. Could you install the latest Nightly build and verify if you
> still encounter the same issue?:
> http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/nightly/2017/06/
> If so, please give us more details about the device you are using.


i cannot repro

fennec: 56.0a1 [ build id: 20170612161159]
device: ls-4001
android 5.1

Comment 5

[vihsa]

the nightly version in comment 1: 55.0a1

Comment 6

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

I can't reproduce this bug. Android 5.0.1 Nexus 5

Comment 7

[rhogenson]

The issue occurs for me without change on Firefox nightly (56). My device is the Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 6.0.1.

Comment 8

[Max Liu [:maliu]]

From (In reply to rayhogenson from comment #0)
> Open a page with a pdf download link, such as
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=example+pdf
> Click a link to download the pdf file. Any link on the page above should

Hi rayhogenson,

From your STR, you clicked on a link to download the pdf file. Would you help to provide which exact the URL is able to reproduce please? Thank you.

Comment 9

[rhogenson]

So it looks like the reason it might be difficult to reproduce is that it only appears after browsing for some significant amount of time before performing the instructions above. I've created a web page for easy reproduction of this bug:

1. Navigate to "rayhogenson.github.io/firefoxbug"
2. Click the link "Second Page"
3. Click the link "First Page"
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 many, many times to simulate natural browsing. For specificity, I repeated them until I had clicked on 100 links total, so steps 2 and 3 50 times each.
5. Click the link "Link to pdf"
6. The file downloads
7. In the URL bar, enter a URL such as "fsf.org"

Instead of navigating to fsf.org, the pdf file is downloaded again.

These instructions do not work with 100% confidence I am sorry to say, if it does not work on the first try I urge you to keep clicking those links, perhaps throw in some other natural browsing before coming back to try step 5 again. After some time of this the bug should present itself. Sorry if this isn't clear enough to reproduce.

Comment 10

[User Dderss]

I have a desktop browser (fully updated), but similar issue: I click to open PDF on a site, then FF goes into eternal, endless cycle of opening a tab that looks like "c:\\\something-somethings-path\filename.pdf" which then gets immediately closed, and then opened again, and forever. I have to kill FF process twice to get the screen when I can uncheck this "evil" tab.

Instead of this all FF should simply open PDF. Is it the same bug as this one or it is actually different?

Comment 11

[rhogenson]

> Is it the same bug as this
> one or it is actually different?

This does not sound like the same bug as the behaviour is different. In my case the bug manifests itself when trying to open a new url in the tab from which the PDF was just downloaded.

Comment 12

[Wesly Huang (EPM)]

Ioana: did your team meet this in your daily testing activities? Or would you help verify that on your side? I'm not really sure if this should be an easy-to-meet issue. Thanks.

Comment 13

[Ioana Chiorean]

We will have a look on it.

Comment 14

[Ioana Chiorean]

I am not able to reproduce this at all. I have a very large profile, with more than 50 tabs obs so a lot of browsing done but the file it is open just once. 
Rayhogenson - do you still see this on your side? Which device and OS are you using?

Comment 15

[rhogenson]

Yes I still experience this issue. I am using Firefox 54.0.1 (although as noted above the issue still occurs in nightly) on a Samsung Galaxy S5 model number SM-G600V, and Android version 6.0.1.

Comment 16

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

Since it's hard to reproduce, I'll mark it as P3 and tracking for anyone who has this and want to fix it.

Comment 17

[Ioana Chiorean]

Sorry for the time passed, rhogenson are you still seeing this?

Comment 18

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Closing per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

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