If you try and download an attachment whose filename contains a space from yahoo mail, firefox gets confused, basically. e.g. - Mail contains "Tax Assignment.doc" - Click on link, download dialog tries to save/open a file called "Tax" - OpenOffice.org refuses to open it (but that's another bug) A little bit of debugging shows that yahoo is returning: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Tax Assignment.doc\r\n whereas gmail returns Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Tax Assignment.doc"\r\n It works fine with gmail, so I'm assuming this is the problem. Not sure if yahoo is even being spec compliant, but it seems like something that would be straightforward to work around and would save a lot of annoyance for people.
(This is firefix-1.0.4-2 by the way)
We just updated the Firefox version in Fedora/development from 2.0 to a 3.0 pre-release version, which improves performance, memory usage, and fixes many bugs and crashes. Closing as CANTFIX since we aren't fixing bugs filed against 2.0 now that 3.0 is in. If this bug is still present in rawhide using a Firefox 3.0 version, please re-open this bug. Thanks and Happy Holidays