857893 - Download manager overwrites (deletes) files that already exist without user permission

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

I was downloading a large file. After I got 97% of the file, bad internet connection caused the download to stop, so I downloaded the file again. My intention was to keep the old file until I get the new file complete.



Actual results:

Firefox download manager deleted the old file that existed without asking for my permission to overwrite the file. My intention was to keep the old (partial) file until I get the new file downloaded in complete.




Expected results:

Firefox should ask for user permission to overwrite files, if a file of the same name already exists in the download directory.