331544 - Download attempts fail: "... an unknown error occurred."

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[John French]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0

All attempts to download any file produce an error dialog box:

     Downloading /Users/[username]/[pathname]/[filename]

     /Users/[username]/[pathname]/[filename] could not be
     saved, because an unknown error occurred.

     Try saving to a different location

Changing the download target location produces no change. Firefox fails in exactly the same way. Other browsers (e.g., Opera, Safari, Netscape, Internet Explorer) perform flawlessly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Select any URL that leads directly to a download.
Actual Results:  
Error dialog appears.

Expected Results:  
Download should occur.

Mac OS X 10.2.8

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Stupid question, but does the user account you're having problems with actually have write privileges to the directories you're trying to download to?

We need some 10.2 QA lovin on this bug, but since it happens in Fx too, it's Core. Let them triage it ;)

cl

Comment 2

[John French]

>… does the user account you're having problems with actually have write privileges to the
>directories you're trying to download to?

Absolutely yes: Owner: jfrench (Me) [the only account on the entire system]; Access: Read & Write. Plus, as originally reported, other browsers download into the directory without any problem whatsoever.