298441 - Download manager gives an error - refuses to download

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 298478

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[plutot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050622 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050622 Firefox/1.0+

The download does not start when left-clicking a link to download. Instead it
gives this error message
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"C:\documents and settings\<username>\LOCALS~1\Temp\lowm5i15.exe could not be
saved, because the source file could not be read. Try again later, or contact
the server administrator."
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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/pacifica-trunk/
2. Left-Click on the exe installer  


Actual Results:  
The error message mentioned before appeares

Expected Results:  
The download manager should have popped up

Reproducible using Pacifica Hourly build (around 2:59 AM 22/06/05)

Comment 1

[snip4]

(In reply to comment #0)
I think isolated the problem:

With a clean profile, run Firefox and:
Tools > Options > Privacy > Sanitize Settings > "check" Sanitize Deer Park on
shutdown > Ok > Ok

Now close Firefox... Re-open it, go to any web and try to download any file by
clicking directly the link...

"C:\documents and settings\<username>\LOCALS~1\Temp\<file> could not be
saved, because the source file could not be read..."

The only way to download a file is right clicking the link and "Save link as..."

I see this behavior in the latest hourly Pacifica builds since Firefox/1.0+
ID:2005062106 till now...

Comment 2

[pika unforgiven]

happens for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050621 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062119(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> I think isolated the problem:
> 
> With a clean profile, run Firefox and:
> Tools > Options > Privacy > Sanitize Settings > "check" Sanitize Deer Park on
> shutdown > Ok > Ok
> 
> Now close Firefox... Re-open it, go to any web and try to download any file by
> clicking directly the link...
> 
> "C:\documents and settings\<username>\LOCALS~1\Temp\<file> could not be
> saved, because the source file could not be read..."
> 
> The only way to download a file is right clicking the link and "Save link as..."
> 
> I see this behavior in the latest hourly Pacifica builds since Firefox/1.0+
> ID:2005062106 till now...


i see the same in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050621 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062119

Comment 3

[Rick Tilson]

The following shows up in JavaScript Console.

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property RegExp.constructor

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050622
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062206

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050622
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062205

Confirming. I saw this last night and I didn't have Sanitize on shutdown
enabled. So there must be multiple ways to reproduce.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050622
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005062205

Confirming. I saw this last night and I didn't have Sanitize on shutdown
enabled. So there must be multiple ways to reproduce.

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298478 ***