216268 - Browser crashes when it should display a download dialog.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213639

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Seb Hunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030721
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030721

Any time I click on a link to a file (PDF, zip, etc), browser crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit any page with a link to non-html file
2.click on the link
3.

Actual Results:  
browser crashed

Expected Results:  
display an open/save to disk dialog

Comment 1

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

WFM on WinXP SP1 trunk 2003081304.

Reporter: please download a recent nightly build from
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/>, and try again. If this
fixes your problem, please resolve this bug as WFM. Thank you !

Comment 2

[Seb Hunt]

Tried again with latest build for Mac [Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X
Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030815]; same behaviour.

Comment 3

[Chris Casciano]

Reporter, can you please attach a crash log to this bug?

(Crash logs should be found in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Mozilla.crash.log
and this crash will be near the bottom of that file (or the last one if you
haven't crashed since) -> crahses are separated by "*********")

Also, can you please include an example page where you're seeing this happening

thx!

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Hmm, this looks like a possible dupe of bug 213639. See
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213639#c7

I never marked that bug "NEW" because I wanted some more confirmations. Seb,
does the download work if you use "Save link target as..." from the contextual
menu? What version of OS X are you on?

Comment 5

[Seb Hunt]

Example url added as requested.

Can't add crash log as ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter does not exist (in either my
user account or the admin account.)

Looking at bug 213639 I agree this is probably a duplicate.

The crash does not happen if I use "Save link target as..." from the contextual
menu; I just get the "Save as" dialog as expected.

My Mac OS is 10.1.5

One extra observation: the crash only happens if the "Always ask me before
handling files of this type" box is ticked in the Helper Applications
preferences for "application/pdf". This was a bit tricky to verify since trying
to edit the setting in 1.5b causes the browser to crash as soon as I select the
"application/pdf" entry in the list (I have not logged this as a separate bug.)

Comment 6

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Agreed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213639 ***