290071 - firefox freezes when right-clicking links and selecting "save link as"

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[eirikf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050404 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050404 Firefox/1.0.2

Any time I try to download stuff with firefox, it freezes and has to be killed
manually. It freezes in the instant I click on the link to start the download.
Also, the same behaviour always happens when I click on the "Downloads"
configuration button in the preferences menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Point Firefox at: www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/tp://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/
2. Right click on one of the links.
3. Select "Save link as"

Actual Results:  
Total and hard freeze, Firefox does not respond at all.

Expected Results:  
Asked me to confirm the download and where to save it

Comment 1

[Duncan]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050404 Firefox/1.0.2
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Point Firefox at: www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/tp://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/
> 2. Right click on one of the links.
> 3. Select "Save link as"
> Total and hard freeze, Firefox does not respond at all.

Can not confirm this with firefox 1.03/WInXP using http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/

I suspect a non-Firefox problem here.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Wing]

I may have found the solution to this problem. If there are many files in the default download directory or it's subdirectories, then the download manager spins the cpu processing the download history information. Change the download directory to an empty directory and clean up the download history.