263234 - Downloads don't work after changing the user name in the OS

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041005
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041005

1. Installed Mozilla under the username that came with the machine
2. Changed username (via control panel -> user accounts) to another name. I did
NOT change to a different account, just the public name of my existing account.
3. Mozilla downloads fail, download manager doesn't even come up.
4. Changed the name on the account to the original name, downloads work again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Same as in details section above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Downloads stopped working

Expected Results:  
The download manager should have handled name changes on an account without failing.

No crash occurred, browser continued to work.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

do you have automatic downloading enabled? (preferences/navigator/downloads)

Comment 2

[Krang]

Since the reporter has not responded to comment #1 in over 2 years, I am resolving this bug as incomplete.  The reporter can feel free to reopen it and supply the missing information if the bug is still present in a recent SeaMonkey build.