176082 - Downloading and Download Manager not working

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Gabriel Lane]

I cannot download any mime type not handled by Mozilla.  When I click on a link
to a file with a ".gz", ".bz", or ".zip" extension (possibly others), the
Mozilla icon in the upper right hand corner becomes animated (as it usually does
when downloading and rendering a page) then stops and nothing happens.  If there
is a header redirect to the actual download, I get the following error message:
--
"C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Local Settings\TEMP\%randomly generated
filename%.extension source file could not be read.

Try again, or contact the server administrator."
--

The usual "save as" or "save" dialog box does not appear.  The download manager
will not open from the "Tools->Download Manager" menu.  The proper Content-Type
and Encodings are sent in the HTTP headers.  This behaviour started when I
upgrade to 1.2b from 1.2a.

My only workaround for this in Windows is to open IE and copy/paste the link or
wget in linux.

Mozilla 1.2beta
Windows XP Pro
Pentium 1.5Ghz
128MB RAM

Comment 1

[Sander]

Shut down mozilla, delete compreg.dat and restart. (In the future, don't install
over older builds.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171441 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: 
Please search before you file a bug. (very easy to find)
And always install in a COMPLETE empty directory if you get problems with as new
build.
(complete means that you must deinstall and manually delete all left files)