[Bug 107719] When firefox is downloading a file, crashes and restarts the session, it deletes the previously downloaded file

Carlos Fenollosa topopardo at topopardo.com
Thu Apr 19 15:10:38 UTC 2007


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

I must say that this has been really annoying.

I was downloading a large file (the Feisty ISO, but that's not relevant)
when firefox crashed because one of the Flash plugin bugs. I re-opened
it, restored the session and the download manager trashed the data that
I had already downloaded. It was 400 MB, an hour and a half
downloading...

The problem is that I was getting the file from a private mirror where I
have to login in order to download anything. So, when firefox re-opened
and tried to continue the download, it got a  webpage saying "permission
denied" and OVERWROTE the previous data, replacing it with the damn php
file.

So, to sum up, the bug is the following: When firefox crashes, if it is
trying to resume a download, don't trash the downloaded data. If it
can't resume for some reason (in this case, because it got a php file
instead an ISO image), tell the user what to do, or make a backup of the
current data and then restart the download.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 19 17:03:56 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux vayralemine 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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When firefox is downloading a file, crashes and restarts the session, it deletes the previously downloaded file
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