Open Bug 1831123 Opened 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Download immediately fail with no error message when user has no write permission on default download directory

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Firefox 112
defect

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: ramast.com, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:112.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0

Steps to reproduce:

On linux try (as root):

chown root /home/user/Downloads/
chmod 755 /home/user/Downloads/

Login as user and try to download something with firefox (ensure default download directory is /home/user/Downloads/)

Actual results:

Notice that any download operation immediately fail with no error explaining what the problem is.

The problem occur even when "Always ask you where to save file" checkbox is checked.

Expected results:

Firefox should inform the user that default download directory is write protected or - in case user opted for "Always ask" option - firefox should work normally and only give error if user chose a write protected directory.

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

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core
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