Closed Bug 249598 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Mozilla spawns window after window trying to open a pdf

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218257

People

(Reporter: athena_sappho, Assigned: bugs)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Acrobat or pdf plugin not installed in this machine; Firefox was set as the
program to open pdf files; when pdf url is selected it spawns multiple empty
browser windows until shut down.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. No PDF reader on machine (XP)
2. Mozilla set as default browser
3. Try to open pdf file
4. When it asks which program to open it with, select Mozilla
5. Watch Mozilla create a bazillion blank popup windows and grind all other
processes to a halt.

Actual Results:  
See 5. 

Expected Results:  
It should have failed, that is, stopped when one try could not open the file and
given an error message saying the pdf could not be opened.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218257 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Mozilla spawns window after window trying to open a pdf → Mozilla spawns window after window trying to open a pdf
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