Perhaps upstream will not want to change this behaviour. That is fine. Then firefox should at least tell the user what it is doing!
And it should certainly not remove existing files if it is not going to overwrite them. When I saved an email attachment .bash_completion, 1) it removed my existing .bash_completion (yes, it prompted me to replace and I accepted) 2) it saved bash_completion (without the dot) 3) it clearly misinformed me about above. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1023012 Title: firefox does not save an attachments starting with dot Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I download & save a file and I change the name to start with a dot, it 0) prompts me to replace the existing dot file, if it exists, 1) removes the existing dot file, and 2) silently removes the dot and saves it with the name. Example, someone mailed me a .bash_completion to replace an existing one, and it removed the existing but saved /home/me/bash_completion. I consider it a bug to not save dot-files if I ask for it, or to not give a proper error message if it refuses. If upstream disagrees, it is at least a bug to remove the existing dot-file if it refuses to save over it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1023012/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
