Newest update breaks file download from non-secure websites.
I have a well hidden web server that uses HTTP. I need to download files from that server. After the newest update, Firefox now gives a warning about the website and on that warning is a button to "Allow Download". However when I click on that button, the file that gets downloaded IS NOT the file that I was initially attempting to download. It looks like it is a copy of the web page that was being displayed at the time. I noticed this behavior at work. I went home and used Firefox to connect to the server and everything connected and downloaded correctly. I went to see what version of Firefox was running. It was 124.0.2 and there was a button saying "Update Firefox". I clicked that button. My home Firefox updated to 125.01 and my home version of Firefox now also downloads the wrong file.
Novain'i Joel Swanson t@
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Yes, they must have broken something. This is already being analyzed under bug 1892069.
Novain'i TyDraniu t@
You can work around it by changing dom.block_download_insecure to false in about:config then restart the browser.