241119 - disabled 'OK' button when downloading file after previous helper is moved/deleted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264492

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[bandit]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

The OK button can be disabled when you want to open a file with a no-existing
program

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a file via hyperlink
2.choose a registered program that is no longer existing->an error occured
3.choose another program

Actual Results:  
the OK button is still disabled

Expected Results:  
the OK button must be enabled when a new program is selected

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

As far as I can tell, you shouldn't be able to select a helper app that doesn't
exist. Can you try again with the latest nightly build?

You can find it here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Please test with a clean profile and no extensions. Thanks.

Comment 2

[bandit]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
> 
> The OK button can be disabled when you want to open a file with a no-existing
> program
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.open a file via hyperlink
> 2.choose a program to open it
> 3.delete or move registered program
> 4.open a file via hyperlink->the program is no longer registered
> 5.choose another program
> 
> Actual Results:  
> the OK button is still disabled
> 
> Expected Results:  
> the OK button must be enabled when a new program is selected

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

We didn't actually get your reply there. Could you please try again? We can't
fix a bug that we can't reproduce (at least I can't reproduce it). Thanks.

Comment 4

[bandit]

Ok, so I'll try to explain you with more and detailed steps... :

1.select a file to download via hyperlink
2.choose "open with" option and select any program to open it
3.close the program with which you opened the file
4.delete or move the previous program from your computer(the program will
automatically disappear from the program list in the next step)
5.click on the same hyperlink and choose "open with"(a blank line is selected,
the ok button is disabled), normally "open with" is already selected
6.choose now any other program to open the file

=>when you want to validate your choice, the ok button is still disabled

Comment 5

[Ali Ebrahim]

Yep, I see this now. Confirming the bug. Thanks for your more detailed instructions.

Tested on: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a)
Gecko/20040504 Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 6

[Matt Fago]

FYI, for me this (or a similar) bug also disables the "OK" button even if I
select "save to disk" in the Open dialog. 

Makes it very difficult to get a file when Javascript is used so one cannot
right click and select "save this link..."

Comment 7

[Ale Mand]

Attachment: Screenshot of the disabled ok button

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

Comment 8

[Daniele Cortesi]

This bug is a duplicate of #264492. Please look there to find a workaround.
Bug owner was notified.

BTW I can confirm that under linux too.

Comment 9

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 284403 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Kevin Brosnan]

Duping to 264492 as it has more detials/more dupes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264492 ***