Closed Bug 239258 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

"Save link target as" hangs Mozilla when trying to save a PDF link

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Download & File Handling
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: mquiros, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 When I am in a page with a link to a PDF file, I can view the file via plugger using Acrobat. But if I right-click on the link and select "save link target as" the browser hangs and I have to kill it from console. I have observed this in several pages with links to PDF files. It seems to works OK if the link is to another HTML page. I do not know with other kind of links. The problem appears in Mozilla 1.7beta. Mozilla 1.6 works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to a page with a link to a pdf file (for example, the above URL, moving to "Impresos" to make some PDF links to appear). 2. Right-click on the PDF link and select "Save link as ..." 3. Actual Results: The browser hangs. I have to kill it from console. Expected Results: Open a dialog box to select the name of the file to be saved, then save the file.
WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
WFM : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 Firefox/0.8.0+ I suggest you try either a new build, or grab a build with talk back and submit crash data via that.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Perhaps related with Bug 237947? I don't know.
Yes, it looks that bug 237947 is very similar to this. After reading what it said there, I have checked my .mailcap file and seen that the path for my Acrobat Reader was wrong. I have corrected the path and now it works fine! In any case, why should .mailcap play a role here? I was trying to download the file, not to open it (no need to look for the Acrobat). And in fact, there was no problem when I open the file directly (it goes via plugger). Well, thanks a lot for your time and your answers.
Well... there's this dropdown list for the file type in the file picker... it contains the description for .pdf files... and the architecture for this part of mozilla is such that you also have to look up the default application if you want the description.
*** Bug 239357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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