213698 - Can't download

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jussi Paulasaari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

This bug is still on Mozilla. 1.4 final.  I use Win2000 and at fist I could
download, just clickin' the link.. Now even "Save link as" doesn't work..
I tried clear my cache, and everything, but no help...  Next I going to download
version 1.5 alpha, but if I'm right it doesn't fix that bug.. Oh well we'll see

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on mouse "Save as"
2.It opens a file list where to save
3.I click ok

Actual Results:  
Nothing happend.. It can't save anything.

Expected Results:  
Start saving a file.. e.g. "mozilla-win32-1.5a-installer-sea.exe"

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

a) Be sure that you installed in an emtzpy directory
b) and try a new profile (run "mozilla -profilemanager" and create an additional
test profile)

Comment 2

[Andrew Coutermarsh]

Same problem here.  Not sure what triggers it; it appears to happen randomly,
but after that point, I can't download any kind of file, whether by
shift-clicking or right-clicking.  Reinstalling fixes the problem, but it seems
to be happening more often lately.  Just downloaded 1.5a to see if I can get rid
of the problem altogether with it.

Comment 3

[davidkolar]

Using Windows 2000 and Mozilla 1.4 with the Mozilla Amazon Browser (MAB) project
installed.

I've witnessed the same problem. Everything had been working fine for many
weeks, and then one day downloading became impossible. Going to Tools ->
Download Manager did not load the download manager. No downloads could be done
regardless of whether the Downloads Preference was set to use the Download
Manger or not. Context-clicking and choosing Save Image As or Save Link Target
As did not work. In all cases, Mozilla would open the Save As dialog box and
allow you to choose the location of the file, but nothing more happened after
you clicked OK--nothing downloaded.

All of these things did not help:
-Cleared the cache
-Deleted downloads.rdf as suggested by comment #1 from bug 210526
-Created a new profile using mozilla -profilemanager as suggested by comment #1
of this bug, but Mozilla could not load at all using the new profiles--it just
crashed silently to the desktop

Finally, uninstalled Mozilla, deleted all Mozilla-related directories, and
reinstalled Mozilla from the Web site. Everything works fine now.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please close mozilla and delete mozilla\components\compreg.dat

Comment 5

[Diederik van Lierop]

Had exactly the same problem, deleting compreg.dat solved the problem for me (at
least for the time being)

BTW, I'm running v1.4 on WinXP SP1

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Did deleting compreg.dat solve the problem?

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking wfm (no repsonse)

see bug 203689 if you get a error message