1498087 - Opening a local file with .log extension in Firefox causes multiple tabs to open

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect, P5)

Description

[R Wager]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce:

I have copies of ascii bro logs stored in a directory accessible by the browser. 
i.e. file:///home/rwager/bro_logs/conn.log
When attempting to browse the directory and open the log file I selected view the file using Firefox when challenged.


Actual results:

The ascii file did not open but I was just challenged again to open the file in a new tab. This was and endless loop. The file never opened and I cancelled the operation after five tabs opened.


Expected results:

I would have expect to just be able to view the ascii text in the browser window.
It works fine for file with the .txt extension.
I also set this as a default open operation and got runaway tab openings. It would only stop if I closed the browser. If I had an additional browser session open, when I closed the affected session the tabs would propagate to the open browser session. I had to edit my profile with vi to remove the file association and auto open to prevent the  behaviour fro reoccurring.

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Do you use the Firefox binary or the package provided by fedora?

Comment 2

[R Wager]

(In reply to Sylvestre Ledru [:sylvestre] from comment #1)
> Do you use the Firefox binary or the package provided by fedora?

It is the RPM package from Fedora. firefox-62.0.2-1.fc28.x86_64

Comment 3

[R Wager]

Fedora just updated to firefox-62.0.3-1.fc28.x86_64. It has the same issue.

Comment 4

[R Wager]

firefox-63.0-2.fc28.x86_64 continues to have same issue.

Comment 5

[Gingerbread Man]

Is the problem reproducible in a brand new profile?
If you told Firefox to open the file with Firefox, this a duplicate of bug 218257.
If you have Firefox associated with the file type in question, this is a duplicate of bug 215554.