333279 - Download manager loses filename if you choose to download file to a new directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309493

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[dre2004]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

This has been around for some time on all versions of firefox that I've used (Windows, Linux). When you download a file and choose to save it to a specific location and you create the directory using the download manager window once you create the directory the file name is lost. I normally just copy and paste the file name if I want to save it to a new directory but it would be good if firefox could keep the file name.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on file to download
2. Choose the path to download too (eg. /home/user)
3. Create new directory with the save file dialog box
4. After you have created the directory the filename of the file you wanted to download is gone.

Actual Results:  
The file name of the file was gone so I had to manually type in a file name (I just pasted the one I had in the clipboard before creating the directory)

Expected Results:  
The filename should be retained in the save file dialog box after creating a new directory to save the file into

Comment 1

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060408 Firefox/3.0a1 - Build ID: 0000000000
WFM.
I can reproduce this on 1.5, though.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 309493 (seems Firefox 1.5/Linux only)?

Comment 3

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Reporter, are you sure the same bug manifests itself on Windows?

Comment 4

[Harvey Wamboldt]

The bug appears when you press Enter <RET> while in the text edit box.
If you use the mouse to exit the edit box, then the directory is created
and you do *not* lose the filename. This suggest the that the problem is
with handling the Enter key while in the edit box.

I see this on all Linux and BSD versions I've used.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060418 Fedora/1.0.8-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.8
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060303 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Comment 5

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060525 Minefield/3.0a1 - Build ID: 0000000000
Still WFM. Can you reproduce this in safe mode? (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode)

Comment 6

[dre2004]

This bug doesnt occur in the 64bit version

Comment 7

[twerner]

I have a similar problem under SuSe Linux 10.1, after updating Firefox to version 1.5.0.4 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060527 SUSE/1.5.0.4-1.3 Firefox/1.5.0.4).

But instead of losing the file name in the file save dialogue after changing the directory, the file name of the file to save is missing everytime I try to download something.

Comment 8

[[:Aleksej]]

WFM with

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070604 Minefield/3.0a6pre
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 BonEcho/2.0.0.5pre
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.13pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/1.5.0.13pre

on Debian 4.0.

Comment 9

[[:Aleksej]]

Also WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Resolving as duplicate of bug 309493, despite Windows in the original report (the bug is marked Linux). You can reopen it if it can be reproduced again with a new version.