476306 - Firefox does not download and downloads window does not start

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 429827

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Özgür KINACI]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

I have been using 3.1b2 for a while. This week (Last download on Jan 27th)it started not downloading files.
I click the link for download (any file) or I right click and select "Save Link As..." but nothing happens.
I tried cleaning download history, reset the download folder, moving downloads.sqlite file to another folder (Firefox created another one), none helped.
I tried restarting Fİrefox, even Ubuntu afterwards, with no luck.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click Tools->Downloads: Nothing happens
2.Click on a downloadable file: Nothing happens
3.Right click and select "Save Link As...": Nothing happens
Actual Results:  
After each step, nothing happened.

Expected Results:  
1.Downloads window should have been visible
2.Should have shown download interface
3.Should have shown download interface

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

open about:config and check if browser.download.dir, browser.download.downloadDir , browser.download.lastDir are pointing to existing directorys and that this directorys are writeable.

Comment 2

[Özgür KINACI]

Thanks for quick reply Matti and yes, you have solved the problem. I don't know how it worked, but it did :)

By saying "I have tried resetting download directory" I meant I changed it to default (Ubuntu profile desktop) and it did not work. After your comment, I just tried changing to some other "Down" directory below my profile, and it worked. Now I changed back to previous download folder, which is below my Windows profile (more space there) and it is working again.

Thanks again for your help.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed would mean that something changed in the Sourcecode, worksforme would be a correct resolution but there is a reason why I asked, it should be a dupe of bug 429827

Comment 4

[Özgür KINACI]

OK, thanks for the information.
I will update according to it.