402006 - firefox adds .exe to the end of file name when downloading .exe files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396477

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Chris Hedley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007091705 Minefield/3.0a8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007091705 Minefield/3.0a8pre

When I download a .exe file firefox 3a8 adds another .exe to the end of the file name making it look like this: executable_example.exe.exe

I was browsing in safe mode when this happened

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navagate to a website
2.Download a file with ext .exe
3.Save it to desktop without using "Save As"
Actual Results:  
It added a extra .exe to the end of the file extention

Expected Results:  
For it to leave the file name intact

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

old build, already fixed

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(Sorry, I didn't really mean 'old build' in a negative way, since you're using Alpha/Milestone 8; thanks for testing!)