Closed Bug 212775 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

temporary files open in new window without content

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: rodspade, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Mozilla is putting files in my C:\TEMP\ directory, then opening them in a new window that doesn't display any content.  This happens repeatedly with Flash .swf files, and sporadically with html files while surfing the web.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Save a swf file to your hard drive.
2.  Double-click on the file to launch it in Mozilla.
3.

Actual Results:  
Opens an infinite number of windows of the form:
C:\TEMP\filename.swf-1-1-1...-1-1.spl

Expected Results:  
Launch Flash app.

A very similar error sometimes happens while I'm surfing the web.  A new window spontaneously opens, with a URL like C:\TEMP\index.html or C:\TEMP\search.html, etc.  The new window usually has no content, or else something very short, like "File has been moved to ...."

This happens sporadically.  I often have multiple windows open, and sometimes select links with right-click Open in New Window.  I don't know whether that has anything to do with it.
biesi, fixing the stuff you are fixing now would help with this somewhat (make
the extension thing not suck as much, at least).  Could you mark this dependent
on that bug?
(that would be bug 147679 I think. marking dependency)

Rod: Do you have a helper app associated with mozilla.exe, in
Edit/Preferences/Helper Apps?
Depends on: 147679
> Rod: Do you have a helper app associated with mozilla.exe, in
> Edit/Preferences/Helper Apps?

application/futuresplash = spl, open w default app
application/pdf = pdf, default app
application/x-zip-compressed = zip, save to disk
application/zip = zip, save to disk
unknown = html htm shtml ehtml, default app


Do you have .spl files associated with Mozilla on your system?
> Do you have .spl files associated with Mozilla on your system?

Shockwave Flash Object
Extension:  SPL SWF
Type:  application/futuresplash
Opens with:  MOZILLA

Default Extension for Content Type:  .spl
Actions:
  open (default) = E:\other\mozilla\mozilla.exe
Confirm Open After Download, checked


ok one last question: Do you have a plugin for application/futuresplash listed
in about:plugins (Help | About Plugins)?
> ok one last question: Do you have a plugin for application/futuresplash listed
> in about:plugins (Help | About Plugins)?

Yes:

Mozilla Default Plug-in

    File name: npnul32.dll
    Default Plug-in

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
* 	Mozilla Default Plug-in 	* 	Yes
Shockwave Flash

    File name: NPSWF32.dll
    Shockwave Flash 6.0 r79

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Macromedia Flash movie 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash movie 	spl 	Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0.2

    File name: npqtplugin6.dll
    The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
image/x-tiff 	TIFF image file 	tif,tiff 	Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0.2

    File name: npqtplugin5.dll
    The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
image/pict 	PICT image file 	pict,pic,pct 	Yes
image/x-pict 	PICT image file 	pict,pic,pct 	Yes
image/png 	PNG image file 	png 	Yes
image/x-png 	PNG image file 	png 	Yes
image/x-quicktime 	QuickTime Image File 	qtif,qti 	Yes
image/x-sgi 	SGI image file 	sgi,rgb 	Yes
image/x-targa 	TGA image file 	targa,tga 	Yes
image/tiff 	TIFF image file 	tif,tiff 	Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0.2

    File name: npqtplugin4.dll
    The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
audio/mpeg 	MPEG audio file 	mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm,mpa 	Yes
audio/x-mpeg 	MPEG audio file 	mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1a,mp2,mpm,mpa 	Yes
video/mp4 	MPEG-4 media file 	mp4,mpg4 	Yes
audio/mp4 	MPEG-4 media file 	mp4,mpg4 	Yes
image/x-macpaint 	MacPaint image file 	pntg,pnt,mac 	Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0.2

    File name: npqtplugin3.dll
    The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
audio/x-aiff 	AIFF audio file 	aiff,aif,aifc,cdda 	Yes
video/x-mpeg 	MPEG media file 	mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1v,m1a,m75,m15,mp2,mpm,mpv,mpa 	Yes
video/mpeg 	MPEG media file 	mpeg,mpg,m1s,m1v,m1a,m75,m15,mp2,mpm,mpv,mpa 	Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0.2

    File name: npqtplugin2.dll
    The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
audio/mid 	MIDI file 	mid,midi,smf,kar 	Yes
audio/x-midi 	MIDI file 	mid,midi,smf,kar 	Yes
audio/midi 	MIDI file 	mid,midi,smf,kar 	Yes
audio/vnd.qcelp 	QUALCOMM PureVoice audio file 	qcp 	Yes
audio/x-gsm 	GSM audio file 	gsm 	Yes
audio/aiff 	AIFF audio file 	aiff,aif,aifc,cdda 	Yes
QuickTime Plug-in 6.0.2

    File name: npqtplugin.dll
    The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/sdp 	SDP stream descriptor file 	sdp 	Yes
application/x-sdp 	SDP stream descriptor file 	sdp 	Yes
application/x-rtsp 	RTSP stream descriptor file 	rtsp,rts 	Yes
video/quicktime 	QuickTime Movie 	mov,qt 	Yes
video/flc 	AutoDesk Animator (FLC) file 	flc,fli 	Yes
audio/basic 	uLaw/AU audio file 	au,snd,ulw 	Yes



FYI, I'm having a ton of problems with http://www.anandtech.com/ today.  It seems like every time I click on a link on that site, a spurious browser window pops up with a C:\TEMP\... URL and no content.  I don't know if this will be reliably repeatable or if it's just the phase of the moon today.

I think the problem with bogus windows opening has something to do with the fact that I'm browsing through a proxy on our corporate network.  I had thought the trouble started when I upgraded to Moz 1.4, but I just went back to 1.3, and the problem persists.  I think my original upgrade to 1.4 happened about the same time we switched to a different network setup.  The problem does not happen over my dial-up connection at home.

I deleted all of the helper app types in my preferences, including "unknown", and now *sometimes* when I click on a hyperlink, I get a dialog box asking what I want to do with a file of type unknown.  But if I cancel and click the same link again, it often works just fine.  I don't think this problem is affected by the content of the page; I think it's some intermittent problem with the browser's interface to the proxy.

For example, I was at http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_enclosures.html and clicked on "Solution Series" to go to http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_en_solution.html.  I got a dialog box that said:

The file "pro_en_solution.html" is of type unknown, and Mozilla does not know how to handle this file type.  This file is located at:
http://www.antec-inc.com/
What should Mozilla do with this file?
Open it with the default application (MozillaHTML)

I clicked OK, and got a new browser window with the URL file:///C:/TEMP/pro_en_solution.html.  The source code of this file was:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
The document has moved <a HREF="http://content.bizrate.com/locator/toms_ad.xpml?rf=tom012">here</a>.<p>
</body></html>

I tried the hyperlink again, and it worked fine.

I think the problem with spurious windows spontaneously opening with TEMP content went away when I upgraded my copy of Proxomitron (local proxy that filters ads and stuff:  http://www.proxomitron.info/).  However, I may have tweaked some of its settings at the same time, so I don't know whether it was a configuration issue or a bug in an older version of Proxomitron.

I still think it also had something to do with the fact that I'm going through a corporate firewall proxy, because I used the same Proxomitron setup with my dialup at home, and never experienced the problem there.

I'm still getting the problem with swf files launching an infinite number of browser windows.
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Closed: 19 years ago
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