281434 - Downloading file with same name again doesn't ask me for different name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240365

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Raul Acevedo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The default behavior of automatically saving with a different name (foo-1,
foo-2) is annoying at best has caused me lots of frustration and wasted time at
worst.

There are several scenarios in which I want to get prompted, and not have
Firefox automatically save under a different name.  All of these happen to me on
a regular basis. 

1.  File foo.tar.gz is really, really big.  I don't want to have to download it
twice if I already did a while back, I'd rather get notified that I already did.

2.  File foo.tar.gz was originally at version 1.0, and now a month later it's at
1.0.1, but the download is the same file name.  All other applications I've ever
used tell me when the file already exists, so my instinct is that unless Firefox
tells me otherwise, I'm downloading a new file.  I once wasted a few hours of
programming time because of this, and it almost always confuses me.

I think the standard behavior is also cool, but there should be an option to
prompt when the download file already exists.  Also note that Firefox behaves
differently than most other applications out there; notifying the user the file
already exists is a widely used standard that most users are used to.  It's
confusing to violate it.

I've disabled automatically saving to my download directory because it just
causes me too much confusion when the file already exists.  But I think I should
be able to use this feature most of the time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download any file.
2.  Download it again.

Actual Results:  
The file is automatically saved both times, but to two different names.  I will
instinctively think the second download is still in foo.tar.gz, but it's
actually in foo-1.tar.gz.

Expected Results:  
If foo.tar.gz already exists, it should prompt me whether to overwrite the
existing file.  There should be an option (even if it's only in about:config)
whether to prompt like I would like, or whether to automatically save to a
different name.

Comment 1

[Raul Acevedo]

Please don't mark this as a dupe of bug 231048.  This is a different issue. 
Though if this exact issue is already filed and I missed it, my apologies.  :)

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240365 ***