Closed Bug 1483479 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Firefox is only browser witzhout ability to run exe from temp directory

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Version:
61 Branch
Platform:
All
Windows
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270736

People

(Reporter: mv, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: parity-chrome, parity-edge, parity-ie) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180807170231

Steps to reproduce:

I want to run an executable without needing to save it to my downloads folder, open the downloads folder (or last downloads) click on it, wait for termination (or finish setup) and delete the file and clean it from recycle bin.



Expected results:

Allow me to run a file. This should save it to temp directory.

Even Edge is able to do this.
The lack of Run option is an intentional security limitation. See bug 270736, comment 2 and its duplicates, and the defunct bug 234289.

As explained to you in bug 1419258, comment 1, some improvements are planned to make launching executables a bit easier. Notably, bug 1306341 plans the removal of the download confirmation prompt.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Component: Untriaged → File Handling
Keywords: parity-chrome, parity-edge, parity-ie
OS: Unspecified → Windows
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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