180529 - Mozilla 1.2b gives errors when attempting to download files.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Geoffrey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When attempting to download binary files (I've tried .tgz, .tar.gz, .zip, and
.exe files) Mozilla displays an error message about not being able to read the
source
file

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.1
2. Upgrade to Mozilla 1.2b
3. Attempt to download a file

Actual Results:  
A message box popped up.
Title: "C:\DOCUME~1\GEOFFREY\LOCALS~1\pf9l9h7b.tar"
Message: "C:\DOCUME~1\GEOFFREY\LOCALS~1\pf9l9h7b.tar could not be saved, because
the source file could not be read. Try again later, or contact the system
administrator."

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have displayed a "Save..." dialog box, and then downloaded my file.

Downloads were working with Mozilla 1.1 for me.
I'm using Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1, with all Windows Update
patches applied.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please do read the release notes; they describe this problem and explain that
you need to delete the file called "compreg.dat".  See also
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/duplicates.cgi

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