237060 - No download dialogue appearing after any form of download initiated

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[JP Hindin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040309 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040309 Firefox/0.8.0+

I grabbed the latest CVS of Firefox yesterday (2004-03-09) and am completely
unable to download anything in any sensible manner.
I straced Firefoxes binary and managed to work out that after clicking on a
downloadable link (For example, a .tar.gz file) Firefox will download the file
to a temporary file in /tmp/ - but never brings up the dialogue for me to tell
it where I want it to save the file, and what filename to use.

When doing a right-click "Save image as..." as another test, no dialogue shows,
and nothing appears to be stored into /tmp/.

Nothing shows up in the Download Manager either.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try and download/save anything.

Actual Results:  
Files that are always downloaded (ie .tar.gz) are stored in /tmp/ under a
temporary filename, but no dialogue box appears.

Expected Results:  
Pop up the "Where do you want me to save this, and what would you like it to be
called" dialogue box.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Can you try this again with the 2004-03-10 build? I was having this problem with
yesterday's build too, but I can no longer reproduce on today's build.

Comment 2

[JP Hindin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you try this again with the 2004-03-10 build? I was having this problem with
> yesterday's build too, but I can no longer reproduce on today's build.

Sure enough. I guess I should have expected something as major as that to only
last a day :)