263456 - downloads overwrite each other / caching does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

Description

[martin f. krafft]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

If I go to page A and download trailer.mpg and while it's downloading go to page
B which has a different file but also named trailer.mpg, and I download that
too, the downloads basically screw each other up since both try to store the
file as /tmp/trailer.mpg. I think this may have been reported.

If I go to page A, download and watch trailer.mpg, then go to B and do the same,
then return to A with the intent to watch trailer.mpg again, I have to
re-download it because B overwrote /tmp/trailer.mpg. Apparently, Firefox does
not cache downloads properly, just downloads them to /tmp if they are to be
shown in a viewer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
See above.

The /tmp files are basically temporary files, so tmpfile() should be used to
create the filenames. Apart, why can't these files not simply be stored in the
Firefox cache, properly indexed by URL, thus allowing a revisit to A to pull the
file from the cache?

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[martin f. krafft]

This bug persists.

Comment 3

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

WFM. The browser appears to make the unique by adding a numeral to the end (2, 3, 4, and so on). If you are still seeing this in 2.0.0.4 or in the latest nightly, please reopen this bug.