298634 - Unable to download a executable file by direct left click

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298478

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Le Rat Noir]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
Build Identifier: 

I need to use Save Link As... in the contextual menu to download files.

Fast back (and forward) is on by setting my browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers
preference to 2.

If I directly click on the executable file to be downloaded (for example :
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-06-23-16-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.exe"),


I obtain from now an error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the file (for example :
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-06-23-16-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.exe")
2.The error occurs

Actual Results:  
I obtain from now the following error message:

"Downloading c:\docume~1\locals~1\temp\i2c12ssa.exe

Downloading c:\docume~1\locals~1\temp\i2c12ssa.exe could not be saved, because
the source file could not be read

Try again later, or ... "

Expected Results:  
The download begins from the site and not from the cache.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

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

Comment 2

[Le Rat Noir]

(In reply to comment #0

Version used : firefox deep park alpha1 (2005-06-23-16)

> User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
> Build Identifier: 
> 
> I need to use Save Link As... in the contextual menu to download files.
> 
> Fast back (and forward) is on by setting my browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers
> preference to 2.
> 
> If I directly click on the executable file to be downloaded (for example :
>
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-06-23-16-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.exe"),
> 
> 
> I obtain from now an error message.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Click on the file (for example :
>
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-06-23-16-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.installer.exe")
> 2.The error occurs
> 
> Actual Results:  
> I obtain from now the following error message:
> 
> "Downloading c:\docume~1\locals~1\temp\i2c12ssa.exe
> 
> Downloading c:\docume~1\locals~1\temp\i2c12ssa.exe could not be saved, because
> the source file could not be read
> 
> Try again later, or ... "
> 
> Expected Results:  
> The download begins from the site and not from the cache.

Comment 3

[Panu Artimo]

I've seen this too, but only after FF has crashed earlier (no talkback).

I can reproduce this by:

- Try to open one of our internal webpages (-> cpu 100%, FF not responding,
close FF)
- open FF, notice something wrong with extensions (for example Forecastfox
doesn't show it's icons, can't save any extension setting etc.)

- try to download something -> "source file could not be read"

how to fix:

close ff, remove extensions-startup.manifest file from profile dir, start ff
again. Download any file you want.

This has started atleast from 6-23 nightly deerpark.

Note that I'm using download statusbar which may also be "broken" after the
crash and causing the error?