[Bug 229952] [NEW] firefox opens files read-only

[Randall]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

this bug relates to #90378 but since that is marked as fix-released i open a new one.
please let me know if this is not the correct way of doing this.
Firefox3 Hardy Heron.

firstly i actually consider this new behavior as a bug as it does not solve what it intended to do in the first place.
second i' m not sure if its desirable to want this in the first place.

if you don' t save your file, you loose it. that is something i can
explain to someone and makes sense, besides firefox opens it from a read
only place (the internet) so you can always retrieve the original.

i can understand that the "SAVE" button should not be available and only
the "SAVE AS" or should default to a "SAVE WHERE" dialog when in /tmp
but this workaround simply doesn' t cut it in my opinion.

i find this highly annoying and disruptive behavior, i have 70 users
depending on firefox and a web application that makes contracts,
invoices, custom documents etc.... opening in openoffice.org

1 they don' t understand why their document is read-only all of a sudden
2 using the "edit" button gives two confusing messages that look like error messages
3 after they used the "edit" button and went through the two errors, the file itself is still not saved anywhere else the /mp
4 the web application gives files an understandable name, e.g contract-number-5642 (where this number is the actual contract number) and it should be saved this way, after the "edit" button it is untitled25455454545

I' m pretty confident that i am not the only one who sees it this way so
i ope this gets fixed in Hardy but i might be wrong off course so i will
try to find a way to let firefox3 return to its default behavior or use
firefox2 instead.

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

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firefox opens files read-only
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