439823 - Firefox crashes upon clicking save for any download

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[john]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Whenever i try to download a file as soon as i click save Firefox crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.gamershell.com/
2.click on the download link for spore creature creator 
3.choose a download server
4.wait 5 seconds and click the link to start the download
5.click save for the download
Actual Results:  
Firefox immediately crashes 

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have downloaded the file

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Can you attatch the the crash report from about:crashes. If there are none, try to get a stack trace:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_WinDbg

Comment 2

[Corey Farwell]

Also, if you can, try running Firefox in safe mode and see if the same results appear:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[john]

i ran a virus scan on my computer and got rid of a couple virus's and now Firefox works fine. thx for comments though.