Closed Bug 467264 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Non-existent Downloads directory selection causes image and page saves to fail silently

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 429827

People

(Reporter: wormwood_3, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111318 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.4 When a directory that does not exist is specified for where to save downloads in Preferences, several features silently break. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to Edit, Preferences, Main tab 2. In Downloads section, change "Save files to" to some directory that does not exist. 3. Go to any webpage, right click any image, try Save Image As. Also try File, Save Page As. Actual Results: Nothing happens. Expected Results: A message should be shown informing the user that there was a problem saving to the specified directory, that it does not exist, etc.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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