211189 - Scrolling to bottom of download pane launches the selected file

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Zack Johnson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Unexpected behavior.  When the user downloads files using Firebird, the download
page maintains a list of files that have already been saved.  When scrolling
through the list, the user will (from time to time) scroll the list all the way
to the bottom.  When this happens, the item in the listbox which has been
selected will be executed.  This occurs without the user clicking on the file
itself.  It only happens when the user presses the down-arrow button on the
vertical scroll bar; using the scrollbar slider, or mouse scroll-wheel, does not
trigger the unexpected results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a file.
2. Open 'Downloads' pane (View > Sidebar > Downloads Ctrl+E)
3. Click an arbitrary *executable* file name in the pane, but only once
4. Click on the down-arrow of the vertical scrollbar until the bottom of the
list box is reached
5. Press a few more times for good measure ;)

Actual Results:  
The executable file selected in the listbox will now run, once for each
mouse-click after reaching the bottom.

Expected Results:  
Nothing; not execute the file.

Comment 1

[jim]

This behavior happens to me as well w/ Mozilla. Since my downloads are always
appended to the bottom of the list, it happens nearly every time I download
something new. 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030625

Comment 2

[jim]

I was also able to launch the file when the selected file was nowhere near the
bottom of the list - I just hit the up or down arrows on the scrollbar a few
times and it would launch the file no matter where I was. 

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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