301642 - mozilla-firefox crash when i click a download link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 280442

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[tahmar1900]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Firefox/1.0.6

FireFox crash everytime i click on download link. it's start to happen when i
compiled 1.0.6 version, i tried to downgrade version to 1.0.5 and even to 1.0.4
but they all with the same bug, kinda weird...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I enter Firefox.
2. I press a download link.
3. It's crash.

Actual Results:  
Firefox crash

Expected Results:  
Download the file to my computer

Comment 1

[operator]

The same here (Windows XP) FF 1.5. With another useraccount it does not crash, but neither changing the profile to a new one nor reinstalling ff helps..

tom

Comment 2

[Sean Mullaney]

I have the same problem - doesn't matter how I download anything firefox always crashes.  Started seemingly out of the blue after months a solid stability.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox but doesn't help.  Win XP SP2, firefox  1.5.0.2

Comment 3

[Nick Baughman]

(In reply to comment #0)
Having exact same problem, if someone finds a solution please do me a favor and email me at [e-mail] It's extermely aggrivating; first problem i have had with FF. Now i'm forced to use IE!!! >< version 1.5

Comment 4

[Sean Mullaney]

I had instlled a plugin that had thrown a load of javascript into one of the config files in the FF directory, the javascript contained bugs and it made FF crash when downloading anything.  I think the plugin started with X and provided an HTML editor inside text boxes.  The only way I could fix it is by removing the offending script from the config file.

Unfortunately I cannot remember the exact detailsof the file of plugin.

Hope this helps!

Sean

Comment 5

[Thomas Bertels]

Duplicate of bug 280442.
Please feel free to post a talkback id (right right on a talback in the Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent and "Copy". Then paste it here.
Try to delete the file "downloads.rdf" (be sure to make a backup of it to help fixing this bug).
If it doesn't work, this isn't a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 280442 ***