I swear to god I'm not crazy.

FRESH install of -current from 12/29 ~7pm in BIOS mode (not UEFI)

login to root for first time, setup WICD for wireless, add a user.

As root, start XFCE, open Firefox and navigate to https://www.sbopkg.org/downloads.php

click on the word "here" - "Package: A pre-built Slackware package of the latest version of sbopkg can be downloaded here." which links to https://github.com/sbopkg/sbopkg/rel...arch-1_wsr.tgz

File download request pops up, asks me to save file, hit save. Life is good.

Exit X, logout, login as user. (1000)

Start X, open Firefox, go the the same URL, and click "here" on the same page.

No dialog. File tries to download right away. Fails immediately.

Tried to download the newest kernel from kernel.org - first time I right-clicked on the mainline: 4.4-rc7 2015-12-28 [tar.xz] tar.xz link, I get a dialog to save... 2nd time, tries and fails immediately. Click on the link directly... fails.

Reinstalled Slackware again .. formatted, etc.

SAME ISSUE.

Am I a complete idiot? Am I crazy?

Why is firefox broken?

Also tried to right-click, Saive link as... no dialog, just fails immediately regardless of what I click on.

just checked myself, have the same issue!
as a non-root user i can't save files. (root can save fine)

Also, when installing virtualbox extension pack, it complains that /opt is not owned by root.

Are you sure you logged in as user 100? A stock systems first user should be 1000.

What location are you trying to download to in FF ? Check your settings, for a user set the location some where inside /home/youruser/. That should work.

Sorry, 1000.


bash-4.3$ id
uid=1000(ecaz) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),7(lp),11(floppy),17(audio),18(video),19(cdrom),93(scanner)
bash-4.3$


drwxr-xr-x 2 ecaz users 4096 Dec 31 21:49 Downloads

that's where it's set to download. IF and WHEN I can get it to bring up a dialog, I can save. But 9/10 times it fails. Not a permissions issue I don't think.

No problems here downloading and saving that file as user with either Seamonkey or Firefox using the Fluxbox window manager.

You might try starting Firefox from the command line, then trying to download the file. You might get some useful error messages in the terminal. It also might be useful to test with a different browser, perhaps Konqueror, as it's at hand.

Freaksta,
[strikethrough]Can you show us the output of your "groups" command?[/strikethrough]

OK nevermind I see above your "id" output.
I wonder if adding your user to "netdev" group would help?

I tried running it from the command line, and got no useful output :-(

Checking netdev now.

netdev didn't fix it.

bash-4.3$ groups
users lp floppy audio video cdrom netdev scanner
bash-4.3$ id
uid=1000(ecaz) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),7(lp),11(floppy),17(audio),18(video),19(cdrom),86(netdev),93(scanner)
bash-4.3$ ^C
bash-4.3$


here's a screenshot of the error.

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Any luck so far?

I just tried Seamonkey - works fine!

Firefox still broken. :-(

I must say, that is strange, as the two programs share the same DNA.

I prefer Seamonkey, because it integrates so many functions in one interface, but that's a matter of taste.

I'm glad you found something that works, but I do hope someone helps us figure out what's going on here.

Not to derail thread, but I am really liking Seamonkey - I forgot how awesome the Netscape/Mozilla suite were.



Still want to fix firefox though!

Steps so far:

removepkg FF43, installed FF24 from 14.1 - FF24 worked fine.

downloaded FF43 from another server, checked MD5, removed FF24, installed FF43, and it still had the issue.

Downloaded FF43 directly from mozilla, extracted tar.bz, ./firefox - same issue.

I'm currently downloading the entire -current64 from another server and will reinstall and try again.

Try checking your default save location. Long ago I found a bug where it'll silently fail if you don't have write permission on the save directory.

Alas, I do have write permissions. :-(

Seamonkey, and even Firefox will write to the directory. I can save images --- Save Image As works, and saves to the download directory.

Also, Firefox packaged with 14.1 worked fine -- just the new version doesn't work.