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.
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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.
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