360020 - file download fails because "source file could not be read"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180672

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Haake]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5

Downloading files failes because "(temp file with same extension) could not be saved because the source file could not be read. try again later or contact your server administrator"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a site that provides file download
2. click on the link
3. enjoy the error message

Actual Results:  
error message

Expected Results:  
file download

- maybe related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356287

- this behavior appeared with a former seamonkey version. Unfortunately I do not remeber the number.

- this behavrior did not appear with seamonkey 1.0.4

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** Bug 360024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Click on Help->About Plug-Ins, this is a workaround for the problem and should "fix" it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180672 ***