1444689 - PDF file open in Nightly loops forever when "Always Ask" is selected for PDF file type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218257

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[mcksysargentina]

Attachment: NightlyPDFLoop.gif

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180310220052

Steps to reproduce:

When you set Nightly to open/view PDF files, if you set "Always ask" for the PDF file type in "Options"-"Applications"; Nightly will loop forever, asking for the opening of the PDF file.

Look at the attached animated GIF for demostration of the issue


Actual results:

Nightly ask forever if the file should be opened or saved.


Expected results:

Nightly should open the PDF file.

Comment 1

[mcksysargentina]

Sorry, I missed the steps to reproduce the bug!

1) Set Nightly as your default PDF viewer.
2) In the "Options"-"Applications" list, select the "Portable Document Format (PDF)" "Content Type" to "Always ask" "Action".
3) Open any PDF file.

Comment 2

[Gingerbread Man]

Open With only works with external applications. You can't use it to tell Firefox to open a file with Firefox. Use the Open in Browser add-on for this.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-in-browser/