910209 - I download 'filename.exe' and try saving it over existing 'filename.EXE', it's overwriten but resulting filename is 'filename.EXE.exe'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 608568

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[miopa]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox, I click to download the file "putty.exe" from web and try to save it on disk. It asks for location and I point it to my putty folder where file "PUTTY.EXE" already exists. Dialog pops up asking if I want to overwrite, and I click 'yes'.


Actual results:

The file is saved as "PUTTY.EXE.exe" (Old "PUTTY.EXE" is deleted).


Expected results:

The file should be saved as "PUTTY.EXE" or "putty.exe".

Comment 1

[Loic]

I'm not able to reproduce the issue with http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html, Firefox increments each new version downloaded: putty.exe, putty(1).exe, putty(2).exe etc.

Could you test with a clean profile, please.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 2

[miopa]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> I'm not able to reproduce the issue with
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html, Firefox
> increments each new version downloaded: putty.exe, putty(1).exe,
> putty(2).exe etc.

This is the behavior when you always save files to specific folder.

To reproduce the issue, choose the option "Always ask me where to save files" (or right-click -> Save link as...). Please note that for the bug to occur, there needs to be at least one capital letter in the ".EXE" part of the file being overwritten on the disk.
 
> Could you test with a clean profile, please.
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-
> firefox-profiles

It's happening with a clean profile too.

Comment 3

[miopa]

I did some additional searching, seems related to this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608568