Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

[Kamil Jońca <kjonca@o2.pl>]

songbird <songbird@anthive.com> writes:

> 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.

This is simply not true. Because if I try to save *.jpeg, or *.jpg - i
got question if I want to overwrite file, which already exists.
And I am sure that some time ago pdf-s was also treated this way.
KJ

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