222833 - Browser goes into infinite loop if I try to open zip files with the browser.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 167320

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Aalok Sharma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

I accidently tried to open a .zip extension file with Mozilla Firebird and then
all of a sudden new browser windows started to open. The process continued till
the computer ran out of memory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a website where you can download a .zip file
2.Instead of saving the zip file, open it using Mozilla Firebird
3.

Actual Results:  
Infinite # of browser windows started to open

Expected Results:  
It should have told me that it cannot open that kind of file extenstsion

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem with a _recent_ build?  1.5a is very very old.

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

Build 2003100804
Works perfectly here.  Please try a newer build

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6.1

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/jsd-src-20000113.zip
When I clicked on the link above, just 223 kb, a downloadbox opened:

The file ... is of type application/zip, and Mozilla Firebird does not know how
to handle this filetype.

Why do you assume, it can handle it, if you choose Open it with: and set the
path to the application to Firebird?
If FB would know which application can handle it, it would have used it without
asking. FB can´t know which application can´t handle it, therefore it is up to
you which application you suggest. Maybe this box should check that Firebird
isn´t selected, but that doesn´t prevent selecting other invalid apps.

imho this bug is invalid, as Firebird did tell you it can´t handle it.
If you override this, it´s your decision which is respected.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

Seen loop with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031002
Firebird/0.7+

FB told me it is a PowerArchiver zip file, so it gave me a hint which
application to use, but didn´t insert this app automatically. (If I click on a
zip-file, PowerArchiver opens.)
The new downloadbox doesn´t tell that Firebird can´t handle this type of file.

Open with: is selected, and the box for the application file path is empty.
If I don´t change this, and click ok, PowerArchiver opens the file.

If I select Other, the Choose Download Application Path filepicker box opens.

I selected Firebird, Firebird tried, failed, and presented me the same box
again, for another choice.
But when I checked the checkbox: 
Do this automatically for files like this from now on
Firebird 0.7 got into an endless loop, creating new windows.
I had to stop this with the taskmanager, and had to reset this option in the
Tools->Options->Downloads->Filetypes menu.

So in 0.6.1 you have been warned, in 0.7 you run into this bug if you really try
hard.
I didn´t look for dupes, or open bugs concerning my suggestions, or check a
current nightly.

I think there should be some Help on this box, that the default application
would be used, maybe instead of presenting an empty file path put the word
default into it, if you can´t show the application name in this field.

There should be a warning not to use Firebird as this box opens exactly for the
reason that Firebird can´t handle it, at least don´t check the 'automatically'
checkbox.

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

If this is a browser bug, it is dupe
Bug 167320 Eternal loop when associating mozilla.exe with file type

-> Product: Firebird 
-> Component: Downloading

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167320 ***

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

vrfy