Hi,

> Is this crash reproducible? If so, which are the steps that lead to
it?

It is not a crash. Everything behaves as if the size of the downloaded file 
would be always 129K, whatever file you download.
It is perfectly reproducible. I did not notice this problem before. It seems to 
have appeared after some automated updates these last days. Now, almost 100% of 
the downloads fail. When it works, it is so rare that I was unfortunately not 
able to find out the reason. 

The steps are :
* Download a file by clicking on a downloadable link (7z, zip, tgz, avi, every 
type of file triggers the bug).
* Choose the directory where you want to save the file (while doing this, 
firefox starts already to download the file by anticipation according to the 
blinking of my router leds)
* In the download manager, either the anticipated download already reached 129K 
and it reports that the file has successfully been downloaded, which is not the 
case when opening the file (data corruption) or it displays a progress bar and 
suddenly stops downloading at 129K reporting that everything went flawlessly 
which is obviously not the case.

I tried "strace -f -o debug.out firefox" with no luck : nothing
interesting in the messages.

I suspect something linked with this anticipated download mechanism
which seems to be new in firefox 3. Is there a way to disable it ?

> Is your system x86 or x86_64?

x86

> Which flash package do you have installed?
r124

> Which Java package do you have installed?

no java

> Which Firefox extensions do you have installed?

no extension

Thanks,
Jacques

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firefox 3 on ubuntu hardy : downloading is impossible
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246888
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