205313 - Don't create temporary copy of local document (file://) when opening with an application

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 73757

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alexander Lanz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030511 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030511 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Given a link to a local file, say file://mydoc.doc
When clicking the link, tell Phoenix to open it with the default application (MS
Word). Phoenix doesn't open the original file but a temporary copy of it. All
changes in the document will be lost. You'll notice that a few days later when
opening the document again ...
The possibility to open the original file is very important for use in an
intranet environment!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open URL with link to a local doc-file
2. click link
3. open page with application
4. Make changes in the document
5. Save Changes and close applic
6. click link again
7. Look and see that the changes are gone !
Actual Results:  
my changes are gone

Expected Results:  
checkbox [x] open original file

Comment 1

[Erik]

This sounds like a dupe of bug #73757

See also http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73757#c11 where the problem
of _editing_ local files using external helper apps is mentioned explicitely so
I suppose this problem to get fixed with bug #73757, too.

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

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.