191328 - downloading a file often results in file extension .csv being added to file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189598

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mark Totsch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030115

When going to save file, .csv is added to the end of the file name. This occurs
in the dialog box "Enter name of file to save to" I manually delete the file
extension, and change the filetype from "*.csv" to "All files" and it will then
save correctly. exe files seem to be affected also. Zip files are the only ones
so far that don't seem to have the problem. I tried uninstalling mozilla, and
nuking the mozilla directory, and reinstalling, but still had the same problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use above link
2.Try to save update.ini
3.

Actual Results:  
Enter name of file to save to dialog box appends .csv to file, and changes file
type to *.csv

Expected Results:  
not appended .csv to files

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Do you have linked application/octet-stream to Excel in
edit\preferences\Navigator\Helper apps ?
Does it work if you remove that ?

Comment 2

[Mark Totsch]

Ok, application/octet-stream was linked to excel.

I'd like to figure out what the culprit was that changed that... Don't remember
doing anything that should have caused that.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

possible you got a mail with an excel file and you unselected 
"Always show this dialog..." in the download dialog.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189598 ***