1478289 - Loop opening new windows after clicking on .WEBSITE file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215554

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[John P. Callan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180704003137

Steps to reproduce:

Converted from Windows 7 Pro 64-bit to Windows 10 Pro. 
Installed Firefox 61.0.1.
Set Firefox as the default browser.
Double-click on a pinned website created by Windows 7 and used by IE 11, that is a file with a type of .WEBSITE


Actual results:

Firefox goes into a loop creating window after window.


Expected results:

A new window should have opened with the URL stored in the pinned website. Changing the pinned website's file type from .WEBSITE to .URL causes Firefox to work correctly.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
20180704003137

In the Applications category of about:preferences do you have an entry for .website files, set to open either with Firefox or with the default application?

(In reply to John P. Callan from comment #0)
> Installed Firefox 61.0.1.
> Set Firefox as the default browser.

I just set Firefox 61.0.1 as the default browser and it didn't steal the .website association from Internet Explorer. Furthermore, it's not even listed as an option in the Windows 10 Settings window, "Choose default apps by file type" category. This makes sense given bug 605222 and bug 624070.

So you must've manually set Firefox as the handler for this file type it can't handle.

> Double-click on a pinned website created by Windows 7 and used by IE 11,
> that is a file with a type of .WEBSITE

If so, Firefox then asked what it should do with the file, which unfortunately lets you choose to open the file in Firefox (bug 218257). If you do that, you create an infinite loop.

Therefore, I suspect this is a duplicate of bug 215554.

Comment 2

[:Paolo Amadini]

Let's assume so.