167755 - File download dialog mis-formatted

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 112180

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[neil]

If you either follow a link to a file of unrecognized MIME type, or download an
e-mail attachment with an unrecognized MIME type, Mozilla presents a dialog box
to allow you to either open the file using an application or to save the file to
disk.  When initially presented, the dialog box if formatted correctly.

However, if the you follow the "Choose" button and pick an application to handle
the file, the path to the application if added to the dialog box.  The path is
almost always a long one, and causes that box to wrap onto several lines.  

The height of the dialog box doesn't change, so the added height of the contents
causes the bottom of the contents to be clipped.  With enough height, the
buttons at the bottom could be inaccessible.

There are some near duplicates in bugzilla, but I couldn't find exactly this
reported.  The duplicate that is still open is bug 128750.  The example page at
URL http://wap.gemal.dk comes from that bug.

I've seen this on Windows 98, but assume it a problem that affects all platforms.

I've also copied bug 128750's Browser|File Handling components.  I'm not sure
those are appropriate, but didn't see anything more likely.  It does happen in
mailnews, not just the browser proper.

Other near duplicates include bug 153190 and bug 153222, both of which deal with
wrapping before the application path is added.  (And they are marked dups of
128750 because they were caused by a patch to fix 128750.)

Conceptually, it seems easy to allow the dialog box height to be determined by
the contents.  I have no idea if that is easy to do within the confines of the
application.

Comment 1

[neil]

Attachment: Screen dump of the misformatted dialog box

Here is a screen dump of the misformatted dialog box

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of "OK/Cancel buttons pushed off (and long full path to app) bottom of
Downloading dlg when Chosen Application string is too long"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112180 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

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