1505879 - Firefox 63 broke download of images on Google

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1504159

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sören Hentzschel]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

STR:

1. open Google Image search and search for an image, for example https://www.google.com/search?q=katzenbilder&client=firefox-b-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz-dH1w8XeAhXGFiwKHdzTA7UQ_AUIDigB&biw=1680&bih=874
2. click on the first image
3. right click on the image and save the image
4. the save dialog appears, confirm

Expected:

The image has been downloaded.

Actual:

The download fails. The browser console says:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIWebBrowserPersist.savePrivacyAwareURI]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js :: internalPersist :: line 523"  data: no]

Regressed by: bug 1469916

13:50.97 INFO: Last good revision: 5d23b6e0b74d74eee52d7af5fa47573ef8afe979
13:50.97 INFO: First bad revision: 9a2b02fe351bd65f6850a5c80b91dd0eec4a878a
13:50.97 INFO: Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=5d23b6e0b74d74eee52d7af5fa47573ef8afe979&tochange=9a2b02fe351bd65f6850a5c80b91dd0eec4a878a

Comment 1

[Sören Hentzschel]

needinfo'ed Gijs because he is the author of the regressing patch.

After setting security.mixed_content.upgrade_display_content to true and restarting Firefox the download works.

The issue and the workaround both has been confirmed by multiple users in the German Firefox forum:
https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=126509