128343 - Attachment 'Open' and 'Save As' do nothing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130763

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

After several one-on-top-of-another Mozilla builds & Netscape 6.2 installs (
what I currently have running is

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020228")

) I have reached a state where, when I press the right mouse button over an
attachment and choose 'open' or 'save as' - nothing happens. 'save all' still
works, though.

To make things clearer, it is not as though this happens occasionally - for the
last month or so I simply have not been able to get these options to work. For a
while I though it might be my overly-crowded-with-junk OS installations, but now
I have a clean install of WinXP, and I didn't even 'migrate' my old registry.dat
- just added a new mail account and told it to use my old mail account directory.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

can you try a mozilla 0.9.9 release build?

This is working for me on my recent builds.

Comment 2

[Aner Perez]

I have had the exact same problem with 0.9.9, I cannot verify if it is still
happening in 1.0rc1 because I have changed my profile settings and can no
longer recreate the problem.

I tracked down the problem to a javascript error with profile directories
that contained a single-quote character.  The default profile name for my
BellAtlantic DSL account was of the form "<USER>'s BellAtlantic.net account".
When this profile was migrated from Netscape 4.x to mozilla, the directory
name still contained the single-quote character.

The javascript code for the attachment-opening menu item is executed by
constructing a javascript function call in a string and calling "eval"
on that string.  The single quote in the profile name was causing a
syntax error in the "eval".  I can't give javascript file names or line
numbers because I ended up removing the offending profile.

Comment 3

[Eyal Rozenberg]

I can very Aner's observation. My mail was in a directory named "Eyal's Profile"
; when I changed it to "Eyals Profile" the problem no longer occured (tested
with 0.9.8 , 0.9.9, 1.0-rc1).

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

this is a dup of a bug already fixed on the trunk. bug 130763

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130763 ***

Comment 5

[Trix Supremo]

verified dupe