985376 - Firefox 28.0 cannot save, among others, email attachments

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140317101559

Steps to reproduce:

When pressing a download link, the file is saved as zero size file. The contents of the file are saved on /tmp. I have seen this behavior on recent version of OpenIndiana and on Solaris 11. BTW, I have noticed also that I cannot install media download addons. 


Actual results:

The file is empty while a file with the actual contents appear on /tmp. The media download addon is downloaded but then nothing happens.


Expected results:

The file should be there where the user specifies. And the addon should be installed.

Comment 1

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Thanks for the report, Apostolos.

Ioana is this something your team can try to reproduce? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I wasn't able to reproduce this issue with latest Nightly 31.0a1 on Ubuntu 13.10 x86: the downloaded files were saved where the user specified and the addons (I tried with: Media Converter 1.0.3 and Media Stealer 1.3.4) were installed. Unfortunatelly we don't have Solaris OS, so we can't try on that.