Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Kamil Jońca wrote:
>
> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
> firefox.
> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
> space.

  no idea because i usually replace any strange characters 
in file names with underlines before saving them to disk.  i
do not automatically save or open pdfs from firefox or any
other utility.


> 2. When target file exists -  firefox does not ask to replace it but
> create file with number.
> (for example: I have already file.pdf, then firefox creates file(1).pdf)
> What am I missing?

  this is normal behavior for as long as i can remember using
firefox.


> User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0
> OS 	Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.15.5-2 (2021-12-18)
> KJ


  songbird