[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

[Marion Hakanson]

Greetings,

Today I installed the 31.2.0esr release of firefox, obtained here:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/31.2.0esr/contrib/solar
is_pkgadd/firefox-31.2.0esr.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2

The system in question is running OpenIndiana oi151a7 (because it can
still play flash videos), 64-bit.

This version of firefox does not allow me to save downloaded files.  The
symptoms are that every download, or "Save As" action returns immediately,
and the Download window just shows "Failed" for the item.

I found via "truss" of the firefox process that it's logging some error
messages in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/downloads.json file:

	UnixFile.read is not a function

When I start firefox in safe mode from the command line, the failed
download attempts log more details:

*************************
A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task.

Full message: TypeError: UnixFile.read is not a function
Full stack: EXCEPTION_CONSTRUCTORS.TypeError at resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfi
le_async_front.jsm:87:5
post/<@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_front.jsm:453:11
TaskImpl_run at resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:283:1
Handler.prototype.process at resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm -> 
resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:866:9
this.PromiseWalker.walkerLoop at resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm -> 
resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:742:7

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I've reverted to the firefox-31.1.0esr build, and downloads are
working fine with that version.

Regards,

Marion