207586 - If no browser window is open, mail attachments handled by plugins are not displayed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Arndt Kritzner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Only the mail/news client is up (no browser window). Doubleclicking on an
attachment handled by a plugin (e.g. pdf) doesnt work (download manager starts
but no data is displayed).
The problem is solved if a browser window is manually opened.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.shut all browser windows
2.open mail/news client
3.doubleclick on a plugin-handled attachment (e.g. pdf)

Actual Results:  
attachment isn't displayed

Expected Results:  
open a browser window and display the attachment

Comment 1

[s.despret]

I have had exactly the same problem with all the 1.4 versions tested (for
Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8)

The last tested is :
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030530

Comment 2

[Dan Gall]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Netscape/7.1

Only the mail/news client is up (no browser window). Doubleclicking on an
attachment handled by a plugin (e.g. pdf) doesnt work (download manager starts
but no data is displayed).
The problem is solved if a browser window is manually opened.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.shut all browser windows
2.open mail/news client
3.doubleclick on a plugin-handled attachment (e.g. pdf)

Actual Results:  
attachment isn't displayed

Expected Results:  
open a browser window and display the attachment

Note: for testing purposes in news
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netcape.test.multimedia
posts with embedded midi (from NS4) will evidence this

Note2: Would the owner please change Hardware to ALL
and OS to ALL?
this bug also occurs on Windows platforms

Comment 3

[leon.zhang]

I meet the same problem

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420

Comment 6

[Karsten Düsterloh]

WFM SeaMonkey/2.3.3 (Linux).