197319 - Opening Attachment uses wrong application (mozilla instead of e.g. powerpoint)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189598

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Armin Gnaedig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

I got an eMail with an attachment xxx.pps
I doubleclick on the attachment and got the Opening Dialog
I selected the first option (open it with the default application (PowerPoint))
and pressed OK
Then the Mozilla opens a new Mozilla Browser window and shows the file in binary
format instead of opening PowerPoint.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a Mail with an attachment, needing an other program (sender should not
use mozilla)
2. try to open the attachment
The dialog looks like:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Opening xxx.pps.htm                                                        |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| You have chosen to open a file of type: "HyperText Markup Language"        |
| (application/octet-stream) from                                            |
| mailbox:///...                                                             |
| What should Mozilla do with this file?                                     |
| x Open it with the default application (PowerPoint)                        |
| o Open it with D:\Programme\Mozilla\mozilla.exe         ( Choose... )      |
| o Save it to disk                                                          |
| v Always show this dialog before handling files of this type               | 
                      
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
(The selection box "Always..." is grayed all times)
3. select the first option
Actual Results:  
I got the wrong application opening the attachment

Expected Results:  
Open the selected application, in my case PowerPoint

I got the correct application if I select PowerPoint in the selction Dialog and
choose the second option.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> | You have chosen to open a file of type: "HyperText Markup Language"        |
> | (application/octet-stream) from                                            |

You have a broken file association set for application/octet-stream, due to a
bug in older Mozilla versions.  Delete it, and life should be good.

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

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

v