601690 - Question mark in windows native Save dialogue fails without error

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[WBT]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.5.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10

When you try to save a file (via File->Save As, or right-click and Save Link As), if you include a question mark in the filename, the "Save" button becomes unresponsive and won't save OR tell you that you have an invalid character. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a link nearby; right click and choose Save Link As. 
2. Type a filename that includes a question mark.  
3. Hit "Enter" or press "Save."
Actual Results:  
Nothing Happens. 

Expected Results:  
The file saves, with the question mark in the name, OR it has behavior similar to when you include e. g. a colon (:): it tells you the file name is not valid.  (would be nice if it said WHY too, but that's another issue).  

Happens on FF 3.5 on Vista and 3.6 on Windows 7.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, Firefox 4.0.1 has been released, and it features significant improvements over previous releases. Can you please update to Firefox 4.0.1 or later, and retest your bug? Please also create a fresh profile (
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles), update your plugins (Flash, Java, Quicktime, Reader, etc) and update your graphics driver and Operating system to the latest versions available. 

If you still continue to see this issue, please comment. If you do not, please close this bug as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME

filter: prefirefox4uncobugs

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't think this still occurs.
Do you see it in v6?

Comment 3

[WBT]

I see it in v 6.0.1, just as described.  I'm not set up right now to test updated versions of everything, but they should be reasonably current.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Reproduced in Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows 7.  The Save As dialog simply stays up
apparently refusing to use a file name with a ? in it.  This is the same
behavior as in IE9 and given that the Save As dialog is the native Windows
dialog that we have no control over I would say this is the correct behavior
for the platform.

Comment 5

[WBT]

This is acknowledged as a bug, as described in the initial post, but if we're not going to fix it, WONTFIX seems like a better description of resolution.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

It's not our dialog, so it's not our behavior and the accurate resolution is invalid. WONTFIX implies it is potentially fixable by mozilla and we choose not to - but we don't even have the choice in this case.