Closed Bug 1091825 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Viewing Video in Source View Terminates Window

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Version:
33 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 8.1
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 472417

People

(Reporter: ddebidin, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 Build ID: 20141027150301 Steps to reproduce: 1. I went to a web page that contained a video background (it could be ANY web page with video background) 2. I viewed the source of the web page to discover it was an (.mp4), it had AUTO PLAY and LOOP specified. 3. I clicked on the video file in the View Source window and it showed me the encoded data Actual results: It caused Firefox the View Source window to terminate after being flooded with continuous flowing data. Expected results: I would have expected it to prompt to Save As (.mp4, .ogv, .zip, non-image mimes)
Severity: normal → minor
Component: Untriaged → File Handling
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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