1677356 - Download error for filename containing "="

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(WebExtensions :: Android, defect)

Description

[Danny Lin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 9; Mobile; rv:68.0) Gecko/68.0 Firefox/68.0
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

browser.downloads.download with a filename containing "="

Actual results:

Always gets a filename error on Firefox for Android.

Expected results:

It should be download normally as Firefox Desktop.

Comment 1

[Tom S [:evilpie]]

Sounds like you are using an outdated version of Firefox for Android. The current version doesn't support the downloads API yet.

Comment 2

[Danny Lin]

Yes, the version is as shown. Unfortunately most add-ons are not available using the latest version... :(

Comment 3

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I believe I managed to partially reproduce the issue on Firefox for Android (68.0) using an add-on called Download (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-addon/). I’ve attempted to download several videos from YouTube, both with “=” in the name and without.

Without the “=” in the filename, the pop-up provided by the add-on (when tapping on the download button) works fine and the file is downloaded when selecting the desired format (several buttons allows the user to select different formats and bit rates from the pop-up).

With the “=” in the filename, tapping the desired format buttons does nothing. The file is not downloaded. No errors are displayed though.

With the newest versions of Firefox for Android, as per Comment 1, the API is not supported yet.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 5

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Fennec development has been frozen; it is not supported any more and won't get code updates.

The downloads API in Fenix is being developed in bug 1538348.