395901 - Downloading from link to non-writable default dir causes odd behaviour

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 326228

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Sven Mueller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0
Build Identifier: (Debian package iceweasel(firefox) 2.0.0.3-1)

I have a restricted user on my system whose home directory is not writable by him (anymore). However, Firefox/Iceweasel still takes the home directory as the default location for downloads. Now when I click on some link which points to a download (binary content like a .zip or tar or some other file type not known to firefox), the usual popup asking for the location to save to pops up with the current directory set to ~restricted_user. When I confirm, no error message pops up nor does any download actually happen. After this, when I click on the download link again, nothing happens at all. Only when I right-click->Save_link_as, can I start a new download. But the left-click remains useless/responseless.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
1) Error message on first try that firefox can't save to the specified location
2) New save-file popup on subsequent clicks

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Resolving duplicate.
Please, mention in that bug any details not mentioned there yet.

Also, please check if the bug is still present in the latest trunk builds. You can get one from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Thanks.