240344 - Browser lock up when downloading pdf with invalid helper application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237947

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Judd Montgomery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

http://tax.ohio.gov/individual_forms_income.html
Click on one of the PDF forms to download.  I tried a few of the IT-1040s at the
top.  Browser will lock up and not refresh its screen.  It works ok with Mozilla
1.6.

I just found the problem.  I had an acroread helper application that pointed to
a file (acroread) that no longer existed.  I had installed a new version in
another place.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a helper application for pdf to open with a program that doesn't exist.
2. Go to http://tax.ohio.gov/individual_forms_income.html
3. Click on form IT-1040 (any of them seem to lock up the browser).
4.  It seems that clicking on any pfd file will crash mozilla 1.7b

Actual Results:  
Browser locks up and does not redraw the screen.  It has to be killed and restarted.

Expected Results:  
Open up a download window and start downloading the pdf file and then open acroread.

Classic theme.  Slackware 9.1.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237947 ***