User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2) Gecko/20080829071937 Shiretoko/3.1a2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2) Gecko/20080829071937 Shiretoko/3.1a2 if your "Save files to" preference is/becomes inaccessible, the download fails silently. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set your Downloads preference to "Save files to" / 2. Click on a link that will download a file -or- go to http://download.mozilla.org/?product=shiretoko-alpha2&os=linux&lang=en-US 3. Choose to save the file and click OK Actual Results: Dialog window goes away. Nothing is downloaded. No error is reported. Expected Results: Some indication that nothing was downloaded and why not. I think this also happens in Firefox 3.0.1

here's an error message i get: *** exception in validateLeafName: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsILocalFile.create]" nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///home/marlon/Apps/firefox/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js :: anonymous :: line 271" data: no]

I think this is the same bug as bug 429827, marking as dupe

Verified dup