1785250 - Cannot save pages as text files even when "Text Files" is selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1656573

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Nicola Ferralis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Steps to reproduce:

Steps to reproduce:

When saving a page as file, no matter what type of file is chosen among those offered (HTML, Text), the extension and the type of file produced is always html.

Steps:

From the page you want to save:
Select menu Edit->Save Page As
Select in the "Format" dropdown "Text Files"
A file will be saved.

Actual results:

The saved file will always have the extension html (rather than txt) and the file itself is formatted as html..

Expected results:

The saved file should have the extension txt, and the file itself is formatted as txt.

Comment 1

[Nicola Ferralis]

This is on MacOS 12.5 using Firefox 103.0.2.

Comment 2

[Nicola Ferralis]

Worth noting that a similar bug for Thunderbird exists:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1782298

Comment 3

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::File Handling' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 4

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

Managed to reproduce the issue on macOS 11.6 and on Ubuntu 20.04 x64.
The issue is not reproducible on Windows 10 x64.