473076 - Can't save any files in Windows 7

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eli Gundry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

In Windows 7, whenever I try to save a file, it does not work. I get no "Save file" dialouge box. This happens both on the right click box and whenever a file tried to download itself (i.e ATI's driver site, download.com)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.Try to download file
3.Become disappointed
Actual Results:  
No downloaded file

Expected Results:  
The file should be saved to a folder

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Firefox 3 will be outdated and possibly even not supported anymore when Windows 7 comes out (early 2010?). Even coming Firefox 3.1 will probably never meet Windows 7. Maybe current trunk? In any case Minefield is the latest Firefox test version available.
See http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

Comment 2

[Eli Gundry]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Firefox 3 will be outdated and possibly even not supported anymore when Windows
> 7 comes out (early 2010?). Even coming Firefox 3.1 will probably never meet
> Windows 7. Maybe current trunk? In any case Minefield is the latest Firefox
> test version available.
> See
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

Firefox 3.1 will defnitly meet Windows 7, unless your suggesting that Firefox 4 will be out by, at the latest, mid 2010, or earliest, August 2009. Anyways, this is a pretty big bug that I bet could be fixed easily. It would help at least 2.5 million Windows 7 beta testers to have a stable version of Firefox to test. And I can't see how the community could lose anything by learning how Windows 7 is any different than Vista right now instead of playing catchup later.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

how about trying the latest nightly before you start discussing about a currently unsupported OS which is at a beta stage ?
Firefox3(.0x) will be outdated at the time of windows7 !
>Firefox 3.1 will defnitly meet Windows 7
Yes, and where did anyone told the opposite except that even FF3.1 could be outdated ?

Is this a new install or did you an upgrade of the os ?
Are you using an old Firefox profile or a new profile ?
Did you already changed the file save setting in the options ?
Did you already tried the Firefox safemode ?

Comment 4

[Simon Bünzli]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090109

This WORKSFORME with both Firefox 3.0.5 and a Firefox 3.1 pre-Beta 3 build.

Comment 5

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

WFM with both Fx 3.0.5 and Fx 3.1 build on W7.

Comment 6

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-IN; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090113 Minefield/3.2a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Ubiquity/0.1.3

Marking as resolved worksforme.