489725 - Downloading in background before clicking on "save file as"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295410

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[shawdy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9

When you go to download "JDK 6 Update 13", when you click on the file to download it, it automatically downloads the file even while the "save file as" dialog box is open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On site, click on "JDK 6 Update 13" the download button. 
2. Select Windows, and then accept terms.
3. Then dont click the tick box, left click on the "jdk-6u13-windows-i586-p.exe" link.
4. The "save file as" dialog box should pop up. (But DO NOT, click on "save as")

Actual Results:  
If you have a file activity monitor, or network monitor, watch it as it is already downloading in the background even BEFORE you click on the "ok" button.

Expected Results:  
No downloading should occur until the "ok" button is pressed.

Comment 1

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

The "save file as" dialogue can only pop up after the file starts downloading (and its headers are seen) so even if there was any merit in delaying a download (is there?), it wouldn't work (at least not reliably).

Comment 2

[shawdy]

Okay, (now that i know that) i still dont want a 70mb (or larger) file to autodownload. For countries (like australia) they limit how much we download. I seriously dont want a file to download before i "authorise" it to download.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before filing bugs, thanks.