185720 - mozilla downloads a file from a local drive if i try to run it from mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73757

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Calvin Spealman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

If I navigate the local drive and execute a file, or run one from a bookmark,
mozilla will "download" the file first and then execute it.  Basically, it
copies the file to a temporary location and then runs that. Mozilla should check
to see if the file is already located locally and then execute it. A sort of
three step "Is it a local file?  Make it local.  Run the local file." would work
nicely.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a folder on a local drive
2. Find a file, such as a program
3. Double click it

Actual Results:  
Mozilla opens the download manager, copies the file to a temporary location, and
executes the copy.

Expected Results:  
Just execute the original local copy

I can only logically mark this as "Trivial" for severity, but I would like to
note that this uses up unneeded harddrive space and time, as well as being annoying.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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