418528 - Downloads do not show up in download manager

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Stephan Maksymiuk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

When I click on a file to download.  It will not show up in the download manager.  Also the download manager never becomes active.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

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

Do you have "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file" checked in Preferences | Main | Downloads?

If so, and this doesn't work, you might want to try a few of the suggestions at http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Unable+to+download+or+save+files&bl=y

Comment 2

[Stephan Maksymiuk]

Yes the "Show the Downloads window when downloading a file" was checked. I have been able to resolve it and recreate several times (for unknown reason.)  

I resolve by uninstalling, removing the Mozilla Firefox directory in program files.  The most important part is that I delete the temp files in C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Local Settings\Temp.  Then I reinstall it.  If I do not delete the temp files it will continue to happen.

Everything seems to work for now.  But I have had to do this 3 times already.

Thanks for your help!

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking wfm