Firefox Download Manager 'execute' and 'open folder' deactivated after download

[Gerhard Klünger]

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

2006-11-12
Ubuntu 6.10 german, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)

Received email in Mozilla Thunderbird with link to a download-site
Right-clicking the link and 'save target at <home>'
After download is finished from the 4 buttons only the first 'close' is active, all others are deactivated.

Opening Nautilus 2.16.1 the downloaded file (a zip) is there in /home/ and marked with the correct symbol as compressed archive.
Right-click on this offers Archive-manager to open it

With other words: The file was successfully downloaded and recognized, but firefox downloadmanager is neither able to open that file (calling for example the archive-manager) nor opening the folder /home/.

Regards, gkl

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Is this still an issue for you? We are trying to trying sort out the older Mozilla issues and would like to know if this still happens.

[Gerhard Klünger (g-kluenger)]

It is still bc.of usability. I just checked this more then 3 month after I found this and inspite of several updates Ubuntu performed in the meantime this still persists.

As clearly can be seen: The devoloper planned that there should be the choices of closing the download-window, execute the (downloaded) file or open the download folder. What a waste of work if the buttons are there but don't work as they should.

[Alex Latchford (alex.latchford)]

Hello Gerhard,

Can you take a look at bug #62442 does it describe the behaviour you are experiencing to some degree?

Thanks, Alex.

[Gerhard Klünger (g-kluenger)]

I took a look and it is the same problem. The difference: I find this behaviour with right mous context-menu on the attachment, in 62442 this effect was found when saving the attachment via the file-menu. As I see now both ways come together in the same download-dialog-window with 4 buttons, and only "close" is active after download, all others are deactivated.

Thanks for your effort!

Gruß, Gerhard

[Gerhard Klünger (g-kluenger)]

One additional remark: After I just made some kind of tests, behaviour suddenly changed: After starting the download either with right mouse or via file menu the download-window with the 4 buttons (close, stop, open file, open folder) doesn't show up any more with some files, with other still does. Sometimes it doesn't show up with one file and after a while i does. Could not yet find a rule.

Gruß, Gerhard

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hi, your original report was against the edgy distribution. I was
wondering if you are still experiencing this issue. edgy support is
being end-of-lifed.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu610end-of-life

[Gerhard Klünger (g-kluenger)]

I downloaded Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, now running Ubuntu 8.04 and things changed completely. The window with the question if the downloaded file should be opened doesn't exist any more in this context. You are asked to indicate the place where to store the file - and this terminates the action after downloading the file.

This issue can be closed.

Gruß, Gerhard