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Firefox Download Problem workaround

For those of you running Firefox on Mac OS X in an Open Directory environment with portable home directories, you may have seen a damnably frustrating error when you try to download a file.

The symptoms are, even with a portable home directory, Firefox insists on trying to use the network home version of the default download directory. Since that's read-only, the download fails, and you can't work around it.

This happens in FF 1.5.x, 2.X, and even FF 3 RC1

The fix is:

  1. Quit Firefox

  2. Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist

  3. Restart Firefox
Firefox should start downloading files normally. Thus far, this has worked 100% for every test case we have, and now, is in the great Google Tech Support Database


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Posted by John C. Welch at 13:36 | Permalink


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Thanks for the tip. That's been driving me crazy for months. Btw the problem can also affect Thunderbird.


Ian

Posted by: kiil Author Profile Page | June 5, 2008 1:52 AM

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