243355 - Right clicking on attachments and selecting "open" saves the attachments instead of opening them

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)

Description

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040510
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040510

When you receive an email with an attached file and you just want to open the
file right away instead of saving it and opening it later, you right click on
the attachment and select "open", but instead of opening the file with its
associated app, mozilla pops up a "save to..." dialog, just like if you had
pressed "save to" instead of "open" on the right-click menu.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.right click on an email attachment
2 [review]. select "open"
3.

Actual Results:  
"save to..." dialog pops up

Expected Results:  
The attachment should be opened with its default associated app.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Does this happen with *all* types of attachments?  Depending on how you've 
configured your Helper Applications in Preferences, the default action for 
certain types *is* to save them to disk.  (In fact, this is recommended for 
attachments of type application/octet-stream and potentially-executable types
like application/x-msdownload.)

Comment 2

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

it happened with a .ppt file.
now I received an .xls file and selecting "open", pops up a "what do you want to
do" dialog, instead of a "save attachment" dialog.At least, i can select wether
to save it or open it, with the ppt, the ONLY possible action was save or save...

Comment 3

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

I'll re-check the default actions for certain file types anyway.
Thx.
errata: it's "whether" on the previous post.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Jorge Wulff, what is your status with this bug?

Comment 5

[Jorge Vidal Wulff]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Jorge Wulff, what is your status with this bug?

This bug has been solved ages ago...
BTW, my last name is "Vidal", "Wulff" is my second last name (we use two
surnames here in the format name - father's last name - mother's last name.
bye!

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>WFM per reporter's comment 5

Sorry I got your name wrong!