[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

[Andrew Gabriel]

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??

Run it in a terminal window and see if it spews out anything on 
stdout/stderr.

The following is a known problem bug in some versions:

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A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task.

Full message: TypeError: Argument 3 of posix_fadvise is undefined
Full stack: 
EXCEPTION_CONSTRUCTORS.TypeError at resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_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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Andrew