118041 - mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz is unzipped

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 116445

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

Go to the mozilla nightly build site with mozilla.  Shift-click on
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz to download it.

The file is downloaded to filename mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz
(unless you change it), but mozilla unzips it, so it really isn't a .gz file,
and it takes up more than double the space on my disk that it should take up
since it's no longer compressed.

If I view prefs->helper apps, nothing is listed for gz.  I do have an entry in
.mailcap (not one I added myself, as the comment shows):

#mailcap entry added by Netscape Helper
application/x-gzip;;\
        x-mozilla-flags=save

This doesn't look like it should be calling unzip either (though it would be
fine if mozilla was smart enough to understand this and do "save as" when I
clicked on a gzipped file instead of bringing up the helper apps dialog every time).

We should not uncompress compressed files without asking the user; if we ever do
gunzip something, we should remove the .gz extension.

This is a fairly recent regression.  Until quite recently the daily builds I
downloaded were always gzipped.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of 'gzip files expanded when downloaded via "save link as"'

I've filed bug 118043 on supporting x-mozilla-flags=save in a reasonable fashion 
(we should decide what reasonable is...).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116445 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
your search string to "DuplicateBugsBelongInZahadum".

if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.