260780 - missing download link on the website

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Yury Puzis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Epiphany/1.2.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Epiphany/1.2.9

Link for downloading firefox is missing from the website. Attempts were made
from 2 different computers, several different browsers, using Windows XP SP2.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Attachment: Screenshot of Download warning in IE/SP2

I see the download link fine, but on the download page, when the javascript to
start the download runs, Internet Explorer on SP2 (with the "Default" security
settings) stops the download and gives the following warning (screenshot
attached):

"To help project your security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from
downloading files to your computer. Click here for options..."

When you click, you can choose to download, or you can click in the page where
it says "If nothing happens, try this link."

The only way I see around this is not using a downloading landing page with
javascript that starts the download (why do we do that anyhow?).

Comment 2

[Yury Puzis]

Attachment: no download link

Comment 3

[Yury Puzis]

The attachement above demonstrates the problem with the missing link. not quite
the same as the one reported by Steven

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Are there any Javascript errors?

Comment 5

[Anne (:annevk)]

Yury Puzis, which version of Opera is that?

Steven, could you please file a separate bug?

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Do you have a firewall that filters out script (but doesn't take the noscript
stuff out of noscript)?

Comment 7

[Yury Puzis]

David: doesn't seem to be any JavaScript errors

Anne: this is Opera 7.54

Comment 8

[Yury Puzis]

David: I don't think so. The firewal is "norton internet securuty 2004"

Comment 9

[kstahl]

There have been numerous reports in the forums that Norton Internet Security's
bukt-in ad blocking is filtering out that link.

Maybe other products too?

Comment 10

[Anne (:annevk)]

Is this still a problem? (I was wondering since there isn't a single duplicate
and I have never heard about it again/before.)

Comment 11

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

I'm quite sure this has been fixed by a variety of changes to the javascript
that Ben, dbaron, and I have done in the last month.

However, we still need to apply similar changes to the Thunderbird download
javascript.

Comment 12

[Anne (:annevk)]

I believe the Thunderbird download script was recently updated as well. Can we
resolve it WORKSFORME?

Comment 13

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Yeah, we're pretty sure this had to do with externally including the javascript
files, which we're no longer doing for either firefox or thunderbird. Marking as
FIXED.