[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

[Richard L. Hamilton]

IMO, any such tests should be done with EXACTLY the same web pages and sites being compared between versions; read on for why I say that.

And use the “Page Info” (or whatever it’s called on that particular Firefox version) to find out what MIME type the browser thinks it’s receiving from the web server.  I imagine that different browsers or versions might have different fallback behavior if for instance the web server isn’t configured to map a file extension and is not sending a Content-Type header (I think that means an implicit "Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii”), but the browser thinks it knows better.

> On Apr 10, 2015, at 09:10, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The failures have varying forms:
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> 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.
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> What gives??
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> As stated in the subject, I have tested a few different reasonably modern FF versions, and they all behave the same.
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> 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???
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> 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.
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> Please give me as many hints on things to test for, or own experiences or whatever.
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> 
> 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.
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> Hans J. Albertsson
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