397645 - Saving web pages with illegal/unwanted characters in the file name (replace/escape them) on Linux

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[r-brinkmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913

Eric Shepherd asked me to report this feature request here:

I have a request for a feature for Firefox which I guess nobody has thought of so far:

If you want to save a web page by a simple Ctrl-S (or via the menu), a browser usually recommends the page title as the file name in the dialog box. On many sites this is no problem, but there is a fair lot of web programmers out there thinking that characters such as double quotes or colons are fine for a page title. However, if you try to save a file containing such characters, an operating system/browser may freeze.

I recommend a switchable feature in Firefox that converts automatically such dangerous characters to single quotes, or underscores resp., before transmitting the title to a file save dialog box, thus nobody accidentally tries to save a file with those characters in its name.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Luna Phipps-Costin]

This is fixed as of newest version of Firefox.

Comment 3

[Rainer Brinkmann]

Yes, fixed indeed. Thanks! I'd like to set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME but can't find where to set it.

Comment 6

[zohn.joidberg]

I was just about to report this bug. This is not fixed, at least not when running Firefox under GNU/Linux on an ext4 partition, but attempting to save a page to a FAT32 USB drive.

Firefox on Windows seems to automatically fix the filename so it can be saved, but not Firefox on GNU/Linux.

Here's an example website with a title leading to an invalid filename:
http://www.blendernation.com/2007/10/08/composite-boolean-operations-using-the-node-editor/
Title/filename: "Composite Boolean Operations Using the Node Editor | BlenderNation.html"

Changing the filename allows me to save, but this quickly gets annoying when saving a lot of pages, especially since there is no error dialog saying that the saving failed leading to accidental missing saved pages once offline.
The download manager does show a failure message, but because it doesn't popup, I have to actually check it to see if the save worked.

Comment 7

[zohn.joidberg]

Firefox info in case necessary (same bug noticed on 3 machines so far, firefox version should be same there):

Bazaj programaj informoj
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Grafikoj
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Comment 8

[zohn.joidberg]

And same result in safe mode.

Comment 10

[samwinchester19999]

is this 🤔
Grafikoj

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