195726 - All downloads are saved with .BMP extension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189598

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ronald Boylan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

Downloaded new Mozilla 1.2.1 (as xxxx.EXE); saved to file as xxxxx.EXE.BMP

All downlaods saved this way, without exception. Can't find any links or info
to explain this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to download page
2.Click appropriate button (save, download, whatever is offered)
3.Save as window shows default file name with .BMP extension, as noted above)

Actual Results:  
"You have chosen to download a file of type: ".BMP Image" [application/octet-stream]

ex.: mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe.bmp

Expected Results:  
Saved it as: mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe

Comment 1

[Patrick]

Under EDIT - PREFERENCES - NAVIGATOR - HELPER APPLICATIONS do you have anything
for application/octet-stream?

 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This will not be getting fixed on the 1.0.x branch; it is fixed on the trunk for
1.3.

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