[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 31.3.0 (and v 31.5.0 and 24.* and 17.* ) file downloads fail mostly, "Refresh Firefox" isn't working on Solaris/Illumos

[Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator]]

On 04/10/15 03:10 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> The failures have varying forms:
>
> A text file will sometimes be displayed instead of downloaded. Sometimes it will be downloaded, sometimes it all fails.
> A pdf download will most often fail, but occasionally be downloaded.
> Zip och bz or tar packages have so far never failed.
>
> What gives??
>
> As stated in the subject, I have tested a few different reasonably modern FF versions, and they all behave the same.
>
> Version 3.6 works well, and has never failed a download.
> (However, several functions on web sites, such as Google Groups and Gmail, aren't really useful in v 3.6. Too many features are
> marginal with this version.)
>
> What could be the reason for the failed downloads???
>
> I have tested starting a fresh profile, but nothing helps, so the Firefox Refresh might not be very useful, But I notice that it
> isn't available.
>
> Please give me as many hints on things to test for, or own experiences or whatever.
>
>
> I have one machine running Oracle Solaris 11.2 with FF 31 and I haven't seen the behaviour in that, but then I haven't done too many
> downloads in there: at least few enough not to dare to draw any safe conclusions, but it might be OK or at least less prone to this
> problem.
>
>
> Hans J. Albertsson
>

Hi,

I have faced same problem when using packages... Instead, started to use tar version(s), and download worked...
For example:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/31.1.1esr/contrib/solaris_tarball/

There are other small problems (flashplayer) but that is another story.

With best regards,
Predrag Zečević

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