201052 - Google search occationally prompts for download

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Vising Google and runing queries occationally popups a save to disk dialog

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.google.com
2. Search for something

Actual Results:  
1~2 times out of 10, a dialog appears asking to save "Binary Executable" search
results.  Also occurs when flipping the pages using the navigation on the bottom
of successful search results.  Subsequent google searches do not work until the
browser is closed and re-opened

Expected Results:  
Display the search results.

Comment 1

[Brian]

Attachment: Screenshot of the google "save-as" error

Comment 2

[Brian]

Attachment: The contents of the file that is downloaded from an arbitrary search.

Comment 3

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195746 ***

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

sounds like that bug, but we should check :)

Brian - do you have pipelining enabled (in HTTP networking prefs)?  If so,
please mark this bug as VERIFIED, if not, you may want to reopen the bug. thanks.

Comment 5

[Brian]

Michael, pipelining is off (verified in both the HTTP Networking and prefs.js).

Is there anything else I should look for that could help?

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please upgrade to 1.4a and retest.

Comment 7

[Brian]

Attachment: Upgrading to 1.4a did not solve the problem

Upgrading to 1.4a did not solve the problem.  This screenshot occured when I
attempted to flip to the next page of results.

Comment 8

[Brian]

I've disabled the keepalive under the HTTP-Networking and it seems like it is
fixed.  I will keep an eye on it and re-open later if I run into it again. Thanks.

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you use a proxy and/or have you tried to clear the disk-cache ?

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

did't see that this was marked as "fixed".
Keep-alive should work and this is still a bug. 
If this works this is also "worksforme" because nothing changed in Mozilla

Comment 11

[Brian]

No to the proxy and no I did not clear the cache after upgrading to 1.4a.

I will clear the cache and re-enable keepalive.  I guess it is a works-for-me,
(unless toggling keepalive indirectly clears the cache).  Thanks.

Comment 12

[Michael Lefevre]

weird... but if it works now, then I guess WORKSFORME is right. thanks for
following up Brian.

verified.

Comment 13

[John Levon]

bug 160958 describes similar symptoms, possibly a dupe