95416 - If all windows are closed after "Downloading" dialog appears, nothing happens

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28385

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[David Bradley]

If you click on a file link and the "Downloading" dialog appears, then close all
windows, then click OK, the process terminates and nothing happens.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Got to an FTP site (Think any site with a file link would do)
2. Click on a file
3. Close all browser windows that are open, leaving just the Downloading
xxxx.xxx dialog.
4. Click Ok

Expected results: File download starts
Actual results: Mozilla terminates

This seems similar to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64089 but I
don't think it's a duplicate.

Verified this behavior on Windows 2000 and Linux.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Xp Apps

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

also see this using 2001.09.04.08-comm bits on mac os x.

interesting: once the downloading [aka, helper app] dialog goes away, it still
looks like netscape6.x is running. at least on winnt [task mgr lists
netscp6.exe] and mac os x [netscape still has a menubar and is in the dock].

note: if i go so far as to save the file to disk, ie, get to the download
progress dialog, then close all the browser windows, the downloading *does*
continue successfully. after dismissing the download progress dialog, the
netscp6.exe process ends on winnt --but it still runs on mac os x.

Comment 3

[Paul Chen]

-> law

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: over to File Handling.

Comment 5

[Bill Law]

Mass moving bugs that won't get fixed this milestone.

Comment 6

[Bill Law]

Spam: Dropping off my list for MachV/mozilla1.0.  If you have issues, please 
make your case by stating which of my mozilla0.9.9 or mozilla1.0 bugs you think 
are of lesser importance.

Please note that *some* of these might be fixed elsewhere if there is work 
being done in the same area of code.  In most of those cases, I will have 
marked such bugs by putting the *real* bug in the "depends on" field.

Comment 7

[Andrew Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28385 ***

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.