I recently performed a fresh install of Intrepid Ibex on one of my home PCs, and restored the files I cared about from backup. I decided to use a Firefox backup created by FEBE from a machine whose Firefox setup I preferred. For a while, all seemed to have worked just fine. Then I came across an image I wanted to save. I right-clicked it, select “Save image as”… nothing. Tried it again, still nothing. I went to File, Save Page As. Nothing! Now I am a little worried. Various forum posts suggested people that had this issue had to remove their profiles and have Firefox remake them. Forget that.
As it turns out, the problem was caused by both me and Firefox being a little dumb. In the PC where I made the FEBE backup, I had all downloads set to go to /home/MYUSER/Downloads. In the new PC, however, my username was different, so that location didn’t exist. Instead of politely informing me the specified location didn’t exist, Firefox just did nothing. Changing the download directory to something that existed fixed the issue immediately. Didn’t find any matches in the tracker, so I have added a ticket to Bugzilla.
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