262816 - Cannot download any files not handled directly by FireFox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Erik Harrison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

After running the Critical Updates for 1.0PR, I could no longer download any
files that FireFox itself did not handle. For example, clicking on links for
tar.gz files, or PDFs, or RPMs all start the throbber for one rotation, then do
nothing.

The same behaviour occurs with the October 3rd nightly. I have the WebDeveloper
and BugMetNot extensions installed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update to a .10.1 or later version of FireFox
2. Click on link such as
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/hotplug-2004_09_23.tar.sign


Actual Results:  
Download manager does not start, file is not downloaded, no notification occurs

Expected Results:  
The download should start

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041003
Firefox/0.10

WFM

Comment 2

[Daniel Koukola]

I had the same problem. It looks like the critical update installs files with
wrong access rights. Make sure the file components/nsHelperAppDlg.js is readable
by you.

Comment 3

[Ivan Tubert]

I still have that problem, even after making sure that every file in both the
system and my profile Firefox directories are readable. The problem does not
happen when running as root.

Comment 4

[Neil Paris]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050220 Firefox/1.0+

Works for me. Reporter, is this still an issue in the latest nightly builds with
a clean profile? If not, please close this bug.

Comment 5

[Erik Harrison]

Not been a problem since 1.0.