618873 - OS X Download dialog box deadlocks with SaveAs when download fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 476541

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ray Arachelian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 BetterPrivacy-1.47 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 BetterPrivacy-1.47 Firefox/3.6.13

I tend to save articles I see on blogs, newspapers, etc.  In situations of low bandwith when downloads fail, when the SaveAs dialog box is open, if a download fails the Download window has a dialog box that's glued to it that pops open and says "Could not download XXXX", stealing focus from the SaveAs dialog box.

However, I cannot click on the "Ok" button on the Downloads dialog box acknowledging the failed transfer, nor can I click on Cancel or Save in the SaveAs dialog box.

The only remedy I have is to force quit Firefox, which is very annoying.

Suggestion:  Change the behavior of the Downloads window - when a download fails, instead of popping up an alert, move the failed download to the top of the list so it's visible then, use another form of notification - i.e. the way D-Bus does it on Linux, or Growler.

Alternatively, add a check to see if a SaveAs/Open (I suspect Open would do the same) dialog box is open, and wait for it to close before posting the Download fail dialog box, *AND* vice versa.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a download that fails.
2. Immediately try to save the current webpage
3. Once the download failed dialog box pops up, neither Save/Cancel in "SaveAs" will work, nor will the "Ok" button in the Downloads Failed dialog work.