315020 - Files can not be saved when history.dat is read only

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Lennart Johannesson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

In earlier versions you used to be able to make history.dat in your profile read only, and thus prevent data from being being logged to that file. But if you do this in FireFox 1.5 RC 1 and then tries to download a file you will get an error message saying that the file cannot be saved and the path to the file in the temp directory.

Weird error, since this used to work in earlier versions I hope you can look into the problem.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make history.dat in profile read only (make sure firefox is turned off while doing so)
2. start firefox and try to download a file.
3. cry... :(

Actual Results:  
file wont be saved

Expected Results:  
file requester should pop up or file should be saved to disk in the incoming folder.

making downloads.rtf, history.dat, search.rdf, formhistory.dat etc read only isa really good way of preventing logging. Clearing history is an option of course, but why not prevent the data from being written to disk in the first place. I am aware a lot of this can be done in configuration, but this way feels more secure and easy so it would be nice if it still worked.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Resolving old UNCONFIRMED Download Manager bugs as INCOMPLETE.  If you still see this issue, please reopen.

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