Firefox can't save downloads on OS X

I have an installation with FF 32.0.3 on Apple OS X 10.9.5 which is unable to save any downloads.
I can start a download, FF creates the .part-file, furthermore the real filename will be created too. The download manager immediately shows "Failed" for the download and the file with the real filename is empty. Sometimes the part-File contains the data, but not always.
I've tried all from http://mzl.la/LJ0h2w, nothing worked.
I created a new FF-profile, does not work.
When I switch to another user on this Mac it will work. So it is in fact a setting within this user. But where to look further?
Thanks in advance an best regards, Ric.

Thanks for your input. Download dir is Desktop and permissions are as follows:
computername:~ username$ ls -l|grep Desktop
drwx------+ 19 username admin 646 14 Okt 14:31 Desktop
Doesn't matter what directory we choose, it is always the same behavior.
FF creates the .part file which contains the download itself. Then FF creates the final file but the size is always zero. It looks like the last step - move the content into the final file - will fail:
computername:Desktop username$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--@ 1 username admin 0 14 Okt 14:24 downloadfile.pdf
-rw-r--r--@ 1 username admin 90016 14 Okt 14:23 tbsWPYgF.pdf.part
So FF can create and name files. If I rename the part file by hand it will run fine.
FF runs with user privilegs:
computername:Desktop username$ ps -eo ruser,f,comm|grep Firefox
username 4084 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
I set browser.download.debug tot true. Firebug shows:
"NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE: Async version must be used - nsHelperAppDlg.js (Line 207)"
I don't know if this is important or not, it comes up on downloads.
I worked through all the hints about download errors, nothing helped so far.
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