137456 - Mozilla tries to render .dmg and .gz files inline

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Josh Whitver]

If you go to any site that has a file available for download in .dmg format, or
is gzipped, Mozilla will try to render that file inline instead of offering to
save it to disk.  

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Go to VersionTracker.com @ address given above (or any other site that has a
file in those formats)
2) Single-click the download link.
    Mozilla will now start spitting garbage text at you, instead of producing a
save file dialog box.

Expected Action:
Any time the user clicks on a link which ends with .dmg or .gz, Mozilla should
try to download the file, not render it.

Comment 1

[timeless]

please provide a specific link instead of a generic site, I can't find 
'download' on the page you specified.

in most cases, the bug would belong to evangelism, because the problem is that 
servers default to sending unknown types (.dmg) as text/plain.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Invalid bugs.

if you don't think the report is invalid, please check to see if it has already
been reported (it might be a duplicate instead). otherwise, make sure that there
are steps (a valid test case) that clearly display the issue as an unexpected
defect.

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