1342782 - Infinite PDF opening

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218257

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[nicolas m]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170225110158

Steps to reproduce:

Using Firefox 54 (Nightly) on Linux:
— I clicked on a link to PDF file attached with a Facebook message.
— Facebook servers handle this by offering the browser to download the PDF, not by hosting it in a way that it could be previewed in the browser.


Actual results:

— So the download dialogue “What should Nighly do with this file? Open with/Save File” opened.
— Wanting to see it directly in a Firefox tab, I chose “Open with Firefox”.
— An infinite number of empty tabs opened, each opening successively another one.


Expected results:

Opening the PDF (as it was now downloaded in my temp folder instead of on a Facebook server). Alternatively if not possible, opening no more than one tab and display an error explaining the situation.

Comment 1

[Loic]

That's the case when Firefox calls itself recursively to open a file:
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Fix-slowness-crashing-error/Firefox-repeatedly-opens-empty-tabs-or-windows-after-you-click/ta-p/2008

Did you associate PDF files to Firefox in the OS?

Comment 2

[nicolas m]

No. Only in the “What should Nighly do with this file?” Firefox dialogue window.

Comment 3

[Loic]

On your machine, PDF are associated to which application?

Does it work normally with a fresh profile?
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Use-the-Profile-Manager-to-create-and-remove-Firefox-profiles/ta-p/2914

Comment 4

[:Paolo Amadini]

This is very likely a duplicate of bug 218257. If this is not the case, feel free to reopen.