Finished file download started again after FF 106.0.1 upgrade and restart
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(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)
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(Reporter: u715832, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0
Steps to reproduce:
Dell Latitude laptop with 64bit Win 7. I downloaded Libre Office. When that download was finished, I went to Help, About and updated from 106.0.0 to 106.0.1.
User String Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0
Actual results:
After the reboot, Firefox immediately started downloading Libre Office again. I stopped the new download and installed Libre Office from the previously completed download. It appears something in the upgrade to 106.0.1 caused the attempted second download of Libre Office. Probably a minor issue since it seems to have only happened due to the particular circumstances described. Still, it seems it should not have happened.
Expected results:
Since Firefox had already completed the 20 minute download of Libre Office, the restart to 106.0.1 should not have triggered a second download.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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Hi Tom, did you close that tab from where you downloaded Libre office from before Updating the browser ?
I think some pages like https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you?version=22.04.1&architecture=amd64 will retrigger the download after a refresh or after the Browser is restarted, I wonder if something similar happened on your end.
I tried to reproduce this issue on a different website and then Updated the browser but it wouldnt restart the download.
I couldnt reproduce this issue in any other way. I tried Release, Beta as well as our latest Nightly build.
Did this issue occur downloading from other pages ?
I believe I started the update from the same window where I downloaded the Libre Office update.
The issue has not occurred after downloading from other pages because I have not tried updating after a large download since then.
It just seemed odd that the large Libre Office download started again, automatically, upon the restart of Firefox, given that the previous download had been successful and the complete Libre Office file was already downloaded. I know that if I had closed the Libre Office window, and then reopened it, without any Firefox update, the file would not have automatically restarted. Normally, the download requires clicking on the "Download" button, which seems to have happened automatically upon the Firefox reboot.
This was an inconvenience, and not a disaster. If it is normal for Firefox to start an automatic download on a page with a download button, when executing an update and restart, then there is no reason to pursue this further. I just thought it was an unusual thing to happen.
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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Hi Tom is it this page where you downloaded the Libre office from ? https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/
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After we hit the download button from that page it opens this page : https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/win-x86_64/7.3.7/en-US/LibreOffice_7.3.7_Win_x64.msi where the build actually is, this page has the auto download, every time you access this page or refresh the page it will always restart the download, so its possible that if you still had this page opened in the tab and updated the browser upon restart this download would trigger again.
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Comment 4•2 years ago
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(In reply to Tom Morgan from comment #2)
This was an inconvenience, and not a disaster. If it is normal for Firefox to start an automatic download on a page with a download button, when executing an update and restart, then there is no reason to pursue this further. I just thought it was an unusual thing to happen.
Yeah, unfortunately it's quite common for download pages like this to both start the download automatically, and have a separate "click here if the download doesn't start" button. That's the most plausible explanation for what happened here. After the restart, Firefox automatically reopens all the things you had open before, so will have reloaded the page and thus restarted the download. Given your comment here, I'll close this out - it's not obvious how Firefox should recognize in this case that it shouldn't be restarting the download, and as you say it's not a disaster... :-)
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