1756016 - Message Source window Save Page As no longer works

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1759911

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ken Skuse]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.27 Safari/537.36 Edg/99.0.1150.16

Steps to reproduce:

view a Message Source - either;
(a) in Folder view, highlight an email and from the Main Menu, or (b) open the email, and from email window Menu;

Select View then Message Source or press CTRL+U. The Message Source window will open.
From the Message Source window select File then Save Page As. In the File Save dialog, navigate to your chosen folder, provide a filename with a .txt extension and click Save.

Actual results:

No file is saved - anywhere. It's not flagged as hidden or system and it's not in the recycle bin. However, looking in {AppData}\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent there is a link to the non-existent file.
Tested on Thunderbird versions 91.6.0 and 91.6.1 on Windows 10 Pro, and independently verified on two different installations by two other people.

Expected results:

Text file of the message Source should be saved.
This was working on 18/1/22 (I have a saved fie). My records show Thunderbird v91.5.0 was installed at that time.

Comment 1

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Not working for me if using a .txt file extension using the 91.5.0 from Fedora Linux, or the 91.6.1 installed from Thunderbird.

However, using File > Print and selecting "Save to PDF" does work for me using both versions on Linux.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

my error console has
[Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 4 [nsIWebBrowserPersist.savePrivacyAwareURI]" nsresult: "0x80570009 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js :: internalPersist :: line 497" data: no]

Comment 3

[Daniel AJ Sokolov]

I can confirm this bug on Thunderbird 91.8.1 (64-bit)

User Agent_ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100411 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666

Console error:

contentAreaUtils.js:496:13
[Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 4 [nsIWebBrowserPersist.savePrivacyAwareURI]" nsresult: "0x80570009 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js :: internalPersist :: line 496" data: no]
internalPersist chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js:496
continueSave chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js:387
internalSave chrome://global/content/contentAreaUtils.js:335

Comment 4

[Daniel AJ Sokolov]

PS: Can the original reporter please add Linux as an affected platform? This is not limited to Windows 10. TNX

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for confirming the issue. This works for me with beta 101 on a Mac. That would make this a duplicate of bug 1759911, which is solved in betea but not version 91.