390988 - deleted original file after an attempt to download another file with the same name

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Krzysiek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

I had "zordon2.wmv" file in my firefox default downloading folder. I wanted to download a totally different file but it was named exactly the same "zordon2.wmv". Of course, I noticed it and renamed the file to be downloaded in the downloading form to "zordon3.wmv". After download, the original "zordon2.wmv" file was in the folder but it had 0 bytes size and, after single right clicking it, the explorer crashed (it did so every time after then). I had to delete this file using win xp command prompt.
I think the problem here is that the firefox starts downloading a file in background before you choose the location and name and it downloads the file under the same name as the file on the server, in the default downloading directory.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy any file to your default firefox downloading folder
2. upload any file to server under the same name as the file from the first step. It has to have different content, though.
3. try to download the file from the server and when firefox asks where to download it, rename it to any different name
4. now you should notice the file from the first step has zero bytes
Actual Results:  
original file is lost (exist in the file list but has 0 bytes)

Expected Results:  
Improvement in the background downloading before downloading forms emerge (a temp file should be created).