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Firefox 43 won't let me download anything. Every time I click on a link to a file, instead of downloading the file, the download arrow in the toolbar gets blue and when clicking on it the download manager reads "<filename> Failed" and the JS console shows
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIAnnotationService.setPageAnnotation]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: resource://app/modules/DownloadsCommon.jsm :: onDownloadChanged :: line 735" data: no] DownloadsCommon.jsm:741:0This happens even when:
- Firefox is started in safe mode,
- Firefox is started with a comletely fresh profile (I even moved ~/.mozilla out of the way).
It doesn't make a difference whether Firefox is running under Plasma 5 or GNOME.
Interestingly, when using a different (pretty fresh) user account, Firefox downloads stuff as it should.
But moving ~/.config out of the way before logging into my normal account doesn't help.
It seems that this problem isn't Arch-specific:
Ubuntu Bug
Any ideas how to solve this?
Last edited by kdall99 (2015-12-26 21:35:32)
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The culprit seems to be this Mozilla Bug. Until it is fixed, one can workaround it by the measures described in the bug's comments - for example by making
/tmp/mozilla_mozillaUser0world writeable.
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