Ubuntu
firefox package

firefox changes name of files saved to fat32 partition

Bug #77788 reported by ahellwig
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Rolf Leggewie

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

After saving a file from firefox to a fat32 partition, the file name is changed. Examples:

foo.exe becomes foo.exe.bin
foo.tar.gz becomes foo.tar.gz.tar
foo.zip becomes foo.zip.zip

This does not seem to happen when saving to a XFS file system.
System is Kubuntu Edgy, firefox version 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10

/etc/fstab entry of the fat32 partition is
UUID=xxxx-xxxx /daten vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46,uid=1000 0 0

Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

This sounds like a Vfat issue more than a firefox issue. Can anyone with downs please try this and let us know if this is same for you? I dont have a windows partition so i can test it.

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → mozillateam
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

hmmm, what firefox version are you running ... i somehow remember filenames like this.

David Farning (dfarning)
Changed in firefox:
assignee: mozillateam → mozilla-bugs
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Murz (murz) wrote :

I have this problem too!
Fedora 6 / Firefox 2.0.0.3 & 2.0.0.4!
But partition is NTFS, not VFAT. To the root partition (ext3) Firefox saves correctly, but to the NTFS partitions sometimes add double extension, but sometimes creates files with correct extension but zero sized and save nothing.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Hi, your original report was against the edgy distribution.
I was wondering if you are still experiencing this issue.
edgy support is being end-of-lifed.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu610end-of-life

Changed in firefox:
assignee: mozilla-bugs → r0lf
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided.
Please feel free to reopen this bug with further information if you
still experience this problem.

Thank you for your help in making ubuntu the best distro out there.

Changed in firefox:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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