391202 - Downloads don't save with the specified (changed) name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264796

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[jezza2412]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

I am trying to download FILE.EXEXYZ but to save it as FILE.EXE

I already have an existing FILE.EXE

When prompted for the file to save to I specify FILE.EXE  Firefox warns me that the FILE.EXE exists and do I want to replace it?  I say yes.  Firefox downloads the file but when I look: FILE.EXE has been deleted not replaced, and FILE.EXEXYZ has been downloaded as FILE.EXE.EXEXYZ

I cannot change the "Save As Type" field to elicit any other behaviour.

If this is a feature of Firefox rather than a bug, then it shouldn't warn about replacing the existing file if the file will be saved with a different name anyway.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Rename any executable FILE.EXE file as FILE.EXEXYZ
2. Send FILE.EXEXYZ to your gmail account (hence my need to rename the file!)
3. Rename FILE.EXEXYZ back to FILE.EXE
4. Download FILE.EXEXYZ from gmail but specify FILE.EXE as the filename
5. Firefox will warn that FILE.EXE exists, do you want to replace? Say yes
6. FILE.EXE will be deleted but not replaced, and FILE.EXE.EXEXYZ will be there in its place

Actual Results:  
FILE.EXE will be deleted but not replaced, and FILE.EXE.EXEXYZ will be there in its place

Expected Results:  
Downloaded file should be saved as FILE.EXE as specified, not as FILE.EXE.EXEXYZ

Downloaded file should be saved as FILE.EXE as specified and warned about by Firefox

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This is confirmed on Branch and Trunk

probably dupe (or connected) to Bug 270159?

Comment 2

[Robin Monks]

Bug reporter and interested participants,

  This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 264796 in accordance with the Mozilla Quality Standards, http://www.mozilla.org/quality/ .  That said, we all make mistakes, if you feel marking this bug as a duplicate is one of them, feel free to REOPEN and be sure to state in the Comments why.

Thanks for reporting your bug to the Mozilla team, your effort goes into making Mozilla products better for everyone!

Robin Monks
Volunteer QA, Mozilla