247529 - Trying to open a file resulted in a continuous steam of blank windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218257

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[richard page]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

The site I was looking at - my online telephone account had a file - a pdf of my 
telephone calls
- on clicking on it a download came up - Thinking this was stupid I forced
Firefox to open the file - and an unending stream of blank windows resulted.
On closing down Firefox - I found I could not re-start - the message - extension
loading - came up - after deleting extensions folder and repeating the exercise
- the stream of windows repeated but not the 'extension' message. The file
extension was .p not .pdf !!
I checked the response of Mozilla 1.7 to the same file and it just refused to
open it.

I amended the file extension to .pdf and it opened in Adobe Reader 6.01

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to open file net-billpdf.p by clicking on it
2. When it offers to download force to open with Firefox
3. That's it a stram of blank windows

Actual Results:  
I hit task manager and kill Firefox

Expected Results:  
Refused to open the file just file Mozilla 1.7 did

I have a copy of the file that caused the problem if you want to reproduce it!

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218527 ***

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218257 ***