273845 - right click->save as doesn't work (@contentAreaUtils.js:internalSave 367)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180672

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mathew McBride]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041207
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041207

Right clicking any link, choosing save as, selecting a location to save to will
end in no download at all. 

JS console reports Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned
failure code: 0x80040154 (NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED) [nsIDownload.init]" 
nsresult: "0x80040154 (NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaUtils.js :: internalSave :: line 367" 
data: no]. 

Using tools->Download manager to see if the file downloaded will throw another
error: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" 
nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame
:: chrome://communicator/content/tasksOverlay.js :: toDownloadManager :: line
51"  data: no]

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find something to download (try anything on
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/)

2. right click link->save as

Actual Results:  
No download.

Expected Results:  
Downloaded the file

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041208

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Test if the URL of Bug 180672 helps or the deletion of the file compreg.dat. If
so, this bug is a duplicate. See Bug 256365 too.

Comment 3

[Mathew McBride]

Yep, that worked.

small note: symptons started appearing after upgrade from 1.8a4->a5, persisted
with nightly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180672 ***