170913 - When using mozilla to open a file from local drive, mozilla attempts to download it.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73757

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Casey Vanover]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

When opening a file local to the system (e.g. file://C:/Movies/quicktime.mov),
Mozilla attempts to download the file.  This effectively copies the file to a
new location and delays the launch of the appropriate plug-in/helper
application.  By the way, this is true on both Linux and Windows platforms.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Find a file via file:///<path to file>
2.Double-click on it
3.Choose the appropriate launch application (if not already specified in
preferences).

Actual Results:  
Mozilla copies the file to a new location (/tmp on Linux) before opening it.

Expected Results:  
Just launched the appropriate application.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73757 ***