215255 - Opening/progress dialog ignores "Always show this dialog" option

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Victor Lewis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

When the Open dialog comes up when a file used by external viewer/player is
selected (e.g. MIME type audio/x-mpegurl) there is a check box "Always show this
dialog before handling files of this type".  Resetting this checkbox is ignored,
next time you select a file file of that type the dialog sitll appears with the
checkbox set.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Preferences->Navigator->Downloads->Open a progress dialog
2. Select URL above (gives file of type audio/x-mpegurl)
3. Reset "Always show this dialog before handling files of this type."
4. Select "Open it with the default application"
5. Listen to the nice music.
6. Do it again

Actual Results:  
The user is prompted with the "Opening" dialog and the "Always show this dialog
before handling files of this type" option is set (even thought it was reset in
step 3.

Expected Results:  
The user should no longer be prompted with the "Opening" dialog for the
specified MIME type.

Comment 1

[Victor Lewis]

Evedently this isn't a problem with all mime types (e.g. PDF works fine) but I
do still have the problem with audio/x-mpegurl type.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please test a current build; some of this code has changed since 1.5a.

Comment 3

[Stefan Puiu]

I've tested the latest nightly build (I've come upon this bug while testing
Mozilla 1.3 and 1.4 - they both have it) on Linux (Mandrake 9.1) and now it
seems the "Always show this dialog..." window setting is set to on and you can't
change it when the dialog comes up. I tried changing it in the Edit ->
Preferences -> Helper Applications section but it didn't work. One improvement
over mozilla 1.3 or 1.4 is that you don't have to type the name of the
application each time - if I instruct mozilla to open JPEG files with, say,
/usr/bin/display, it remembers this setting in the "open it with" edit box
(before I would have to re-type it). This isn't much help though and this bug is
so damn obvious I wonder why it hasn't been fixed. 

Steps to reproduce are the same as in the first bug report, only I tried JPEG
files, not MPEG. 

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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