Firefox downloads in RHEL5 appear broken.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Users are experiencing problems downloading files with Firefox in RHEL5.
  • It seems that temporary files do get downloaded into /tmp but are never moved to the proper locations.
  • Firefox shows the downloads as unfinished with unknown time remaining, and they can't be cancelled.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11
  • firefox-31.1.0-6.el5

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