856400 - "Always ask me where to save files" crashes if primary disk is full, with "/Users/username/Downloads could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[adam.m.s.martin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to download a 100MB file to USB drive with gigabytes free, while system hard disk had only 10s of MB free


Actual results:

Firefox download process crashed with an incorrect error message:

"/Users/username/Downloads could not be saved, because an unknown error occurred.

Try saving to a different location."

-- NB: this error is completely incorrect:

1. I was not saving to that location
2. Firefox settings say "Always ask me where to save files", and this didn't happen
3. Firefox crashed *before* asking which location to save to


Expected results:

Firefox should have asked where to save, then saved the file

Comment 2

[adam.m.s.martin]

Please explain why this is a duplicate. The two bugs reference different bugs in the process.

When saving to USB drive, Firefox does NOT save to /tmp first. This bug is about the dialog box / error message running the wrong code before popping up - not about the download itself.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Adam,
Can you still reproduce?