Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133447
firefox increments numbers in file name
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:49 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: If I download a file, then download the file again, instead of getting a message asking me if I want to overwrite the existing file, Firefox changes the filename and downloads the file. For example when I downloaded 4Suite-1.0-3.i386.rpm for the time the download aborted with a client side reset. So I clicked the file a second time and it begin downloading 4Suite-2.0-3.i386.rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): version 1 preview 1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download a file 2. Download the same file 3. Actual Results: There were two seperate files, one named correctly and the other incremented by 1 Expected Results: I should be prompted to overwrite the existing file Additional info:
It's been that way forever, I always thought it was a feature. It probably should be considered a bug though.
Firefox still has this behavior in firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.1
If you don't want that behavior, turn off the automatic downloading feature. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231048