1292599 - browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 453455

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P3)

Description

[cyprian.guerra]

Attachment: mimeTypes.rdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20151016093648

Steps to reproduce:

1. clicked on download option of text/csv file
2. selected "Open with" and path to /usr/bin/gedit
3. checked "[x] Do this automatically for files like this from now on."
4. clicked "OK"
5. closed opened file
6. clicked on download option of the same text/csv file again


Actual results:

Firefox didn't respect mimeTypes.rdf rules to open text/csv files with gedit without asking and displayed a dialog asking what to do instead. Only difference in behavior: the check-box from step #3 was checked this time.

Tested on Firefox:
Version: 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
Version: 41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu1

Reproducible:
1. by just clicking in Firefox
2. by setting FirefoxProfile with Selenium web-driver
3. by modifying about:config in Firefox and mimeType.rdf directly


Expected results:

Firefox should respect mimeTypes.rdf rules and automatically open text/csv file with gedit without asking what to do.

Comment 1

[cyprian.guerra]

Attachment: modal.png

Adding a modal dialog screenshot.

Comment 2

[cyprian.guerra]

The feature works as expected (i.e. modal dialog doesn't show up next time the file is downloaded) when option "Save File" is selected instead of "Open with".

Comment 3

[cyprian.guerra]

Attachment: Manually created mimeTypes.rdf

Adding mimeTypes.rdf I manually created for testing (without clutter).

Comment 4

[Loic]

Similar to bug 1012615?

Comment 5

[cyprian.guerra]

(In reply to Loic from comment #4)
> Similar to bug 1012615?

Seems similar but I don't think it has anything to do with special support of CA files. What's more, it works as expected when selecting "Save File" instead of "Open with" - which isn't the case with bug 1012615.

Comment 6

[cyprian.guerra]

It also doesn't work for image/png mime types. Saving without prompt does, opening without prompt doesn't.

Comment 7

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

I believe this is a dupe of bug 453455? cyprian, are you able to see the headers of the response? Does it include content-disposition:attachment?

Comment 8

[cyprian.guerra]

Sorry for delay.

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #7)
> [...] headers of the response? Does it include content-disposition:attachment?

Yes... e.g.:

> Content-Disposition:"attachment; filename=foobar.csv"

Without this header the browser remembers the action and auto-opens the file. This is a duplicate. Is this a desired behavior, though? Auto-saving the file regardless of the "Content-Disposition" but auto-opening the file only when this header is absent?

Comment 9

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Yeah this is a duplicate. If the user requests to auto open or to save these types of files automatically we should respect the users request over the websites request.