using firefox to download a file doesn't work

[khperkins]

When I try to download a file from a website, I get the "save to disk" dialog,
but when I press "ok" the dialog closes and nothing gets dowloaded (mozilla
download manager does NOT appear).If I right-click on the file and choose "Save
Link As" then the file downloads (everything works as expected.).

[Ian Griffiths (ianrgriffiths)]

I can confirm this bug. I ran into it trying to download the tarball at
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

I got exactly the same results...nothing if i click on the link, then tell
it save, but works perfectly if I chose "Save link as..."

Only started happening for me after the upgrade to 1.0.1 (hoary)

[khperkins (khperkins)]

Should have added--Using Hoary with the latest firefox-1.0.1 (todays upgrade)

[Thom May (thombot)]

*** Bug 14067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Thom May (thombot)]

OK, I think this is a combination of several factors.
Can all of y'all who reported the problem open up a Terminal or Nautilus and
check the contents of the Desktop directory in your home?
(ls ~/Desktop in terminal)
If my suspicion is correct, your downloads are there.
If this *is* the case (and I just checked it here, and downloads definitely
work), then the problem is that Nautilus and gamin aren't playing ball and
updating the Desktop correctly.

[khperkins (khperkins)]

That is "definately not" what's happening. (Although You do have to refresh the
destop through Nautilus when you download something, to see it. That's a
diferent bug.)
The download dialogue does not download anything, unless you right click on the
object and selct "save Link as..". And it doesn't matter where you pick to
download to either.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

I have nothing new in my ~/Desktop either.

[angelo trivelli (angdis-news)]

FWIW,

I got this problem after upgrading to firefox 1.0.1 (on 2005-3-15). I am not
using nautilus. I running a pretty minimal system with xfce.

Like everyone else, no downloads appear in my Desktop folder.

[khperkins (khperkins)]

OK--more research.
This only seems to happen if I've checked "ask me where to save every file" in
Firefox Edit> Preferences > Downloads.

[Thom May (thombot)]

*** Bug 14092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Thom May (thombot)]

Confirmed, looks like a gtk filechooser problem.

[Hidde Brugmans (hcbrugmans-deactivatedaccount)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> OK--more research.
> This only seems to happen if I've checked "ask me where to save every file" in
> Firefox Edit> Preferences > Downloads.

Yup, this is true for me also

[Jochem Kossen (jkossen)]

happens on amd64 here too.

In the terminal this message appears: failed to read() from server connection

[Thom May (thombot)]

*** Bug 14391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Thom May (thombot)]

 mozilla-firefox (1.0.1-2ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Enable xinerama (Ubuntu: #6414)
   * Fix warning to talk about Firefox rather than mozilla (Ubuntu: #6182)
   * Open in new window by default (Ubuntu: #7653)
   * Fixes for non Latin1 printing (Ubuntu: #6233)
   * Fix for Extension-Manager crashing with broken xml
   * Combination of fixes to hopefully get #7711; certainly I can't reproduce
     the problem now

[Alan (alan-karna)]

Two and half years later, I'm running Fiesty Fawn (7.04) with Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 and I'm having this same exact problem. Has anyone been working on it?

Right clicking and selecting "Save As..." doesn't always work for me, but that's just because of website design. Some use an PHP link that automatically changes, so Save As... doesn't save the .tar/.gz file i'm trying to download, it tries to save the .php file instead.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:28:50PM -0000, Alan wrote:
> Two and half years later, I'm running Fiesty Fawn (7.04) with Mozilla
> Firefox 2.0.0.6 and I'm having this same exact problem. Has anyone been
> working on it?
>
> Right clicking and selecting "Save As..." doesn't always work for me,
> but that's just because of website design. Some use an PHP link that
> automatically changes, so Save As... doesn't save the .tar/.gz file i'm
> trying to download, it tries to save the .php file instead.
>

Well ... your description doesn't really sound like a bug. If a
website implements some redirect shuffling to automatically make you
download, right clicking on the initial link won't bring you anyway
... as you pointed out this is by website design and firefox cannot do
much about it.

 - Alexander

[MasonF (weinem)]

This just started for me also, same as two years ago. Using Firefox 2.0.0.11

[Mjukost (stripped-l2)]

I had the same problem, i xfered my settings from a previous installation of firefox (from windows) and obviously it didnt change the default place to save files.
However after changing the default download folder i can now get files.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:42:43PM -0000, Mjukost wrote:
> I had the same problem, i xfered my settings from a previous installation of firefox (from windows) and obviously it didnt change the default place to save files.
> However after changing the default download folder i can now get files.
>

we cannot deal with this kind of manual settings migration and the
workaround appears to be trivial ...

 status wontfix

 - Alexander