Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #152038
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 152038

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In , Cmsj-bugzilla (cmsj-bugzilla) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020518 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020518 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.6

If one is trying to upload a file to a web site and one is unable to read that file (e.g. one does not have permissions to do so), Firefox will not display an error message, it will simply upload the file as 0 bytes, which may confuse the web application.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a site that accepts file uploads
2. Upload a file your user does not have permissions to read
3.
Actual Results:
Silent fail

Expected Results:
Noisy fail

Some have argued that this is a High/Critical bug since users could be silently uploading empty data over real data, and thus losing it.