Created attachment 8428934 leading_period.patch nsHelperAppDlg.js checks with the user to remove a leading period file, removes it and then saves the file without the period.
Patch to check here and only remove the file if the final name matches. What's the current policy on this as well? According to this bug, all leading periods should be removed when saving, but none of the paths in toolkit/content/contentAreaUtills.js seem to do so? So it can save leading period files that way. -- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp