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

[George Gill]

** Description changed:

  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.
+ denied" and OVERWROTE the previous data, replacing it with the 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

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

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