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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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Firefox, Troubleshooting, Firefox Download Problem on Mac OS X, Firefox download problems, Firefox Mac OS X

Comments

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

Ian

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

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