songbird <songb...@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 -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/