265549 - doesn't remember last application selected when clicking on a nfo file

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Eric Polysson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

when I click on a nfo file (text file describing some software) I am asked to
choose what application to open the file with (even if this is already set in
windows). No possibility to make this behaviour default and the software
selected (in this case UltraEdit or notepad) is not added in the list of
possible software opening that format.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.select a page with a link to a .nfo file (or any text file)
2.click on this link
3.the "open" window opens and ask what to do with this file

Actual Results:  
I have to select the software to open this file

Expected Results:  
open this file automatically or at least remember the file I last opened this
file with.

Comment 1

[Eric Polysson]

I noticed this mostly in easynews NNTP-2-Web pages:

Typical html code:

&nbsp; <input type="checkbox" name="05690"
value="/news/e/e/6/ee60e9a5bb481e835ffaa4a7ec14a7a300f57b4fd.nfo/_TTC_Irons_-_History_Of_The_Supreme_Court.nfo"><a
href="/news/e/e/6/ee60e9a5bb481e835ffaa4a7ec14a7a300f57b4fd.nfo/_TTC_Irons_-_History_Of_The_Supreme_Court.nfo">NP
NMR History of the Supreme Court day 1 of 4 [01/12] - (TTC) Irons - History Of
The Supreme Court.nfo (*/1) - 6K</a><br>

When clicking on a regular .nfo file (text file), firefox displays it in a web
page (and that's perfect). But when clicking on a link formated as shown
earlier, firefox asks what to do with the file.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

your analysis is wrong. this behaviour does not depend on how the link looks or
what extension it has.

it seems likely that the server sends content-disposition:attachment for the
cases where it shows the dialog; can you verify that? (using
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

More to the point, what does the dialog you get say?  The text is different in
different circumstances, if you noticed.

Comment 4

[Eric Polysson]

Attachment: The opening dialog

note than when I click on OK, the file opens with the application-handler set
in Windows (in that case, notepad.exe NOT MSInfo)

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Oh.  Firefox.  Firefox has forked all this code.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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