278194 - Firefox deletes opened files that were modified by user when closed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191239

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Aaron Pfeifer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If a user opens a file (such as a Word Document) from Firefox by using the "Open
With", then saves it, Firefox will delete the file even though it has been
edited and modified by the user.  This could potentially have very very bad
results if the user was spending hours (such as myself :)) on editing a
document, closing it and saving it, then closing Firefox.  All of that data is
lost unless data recovery software is used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a web page that contains links to .doc files
2. Edit the document and save it
3. Close firefox

Actual Results:  
The file that was created in the temp folder is deleted

Expected Results:  
In my opinion, "Open With" should be the same thing as saving it.  Sure we're
not specifying the exact location that we'd like the file to be saved, but it
shouldn't delete it.  This is completely not what the user expects.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

see Bug 191239 comment 2 too

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191239 ***