265637 - Cannot open file type with extension .MDB

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox offer me only option "Save to disk", but I use this link to local
network MS Accesss database , and I would like to open them, like others MS
Office files (doc, xls). (I am behind firewall, so this is for me not so big
secure hole to open MDB files)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create file with extension .MDB
2. create link to this file
3. try click on this link

Actual Results:  
Only option "Save to disk".

Expected Results:  
Options "Save to disk" and "Open file with..."

Comment 1

[David Hom]

This seems to be a general bug.  If one tries to open any file type that is
registered in Windows, but apparently not registered in Firefox, for example a
.chm file, Firefox will only give you the option to Save As.

For example, I have a file called help.chm in C:\.  If I create a link,
"file:///C:/help.chm" and try to open it with Firefox, I only get the option to
Save the file.  Interestingly enough, FF knows enough to pull the file type
information from Windows; FF appropriately indicates the file is "Compiled HTML
Help file".

"Open" should be a valid choice here, allowing Windows to use the registered
application to handle the file, in this case C:\Windows\hh.exe.

IE behavior is exactly this.  Click the link to Windows registered filetype and
use the registered application to open the file.

Comment 2

[osavill]

This also goes for .xls files in Linux. Although they can be handled by various
applications FireFox simply offers the "Save to disk" option. Moreover, there is
no way of manually adding in a MIME type. You can change them once they are
there, kind of Catch 22 !! or you can delete them, but not add them !! 

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Do you still see this with a current build? BTW directly executing a
mdb (or chm) file is not possible, we forbid that (opening with a helper app is
possible so).

Comment 4

[M]

Frank, what do you mean by "we forbid" directly executing .mdb or .chm? They are not executables and cannot run without an application anyway.

Yet they do seem to be treated differently than Word or Excel files, which looks like a bug. There is nothing inherently different between a .doc, an .xls and an .mdb.

Comment 5

[Joschi]

After instlling the version 2.0 I have the same isue with XLS-Files. Has some one any idea how the file extension can be maintained??

Comment 6

[Manfred Georg]

This has been in the system for 1.5 years and it's still not fixed!  When I try to get an odp file it automatically dumps it to the screen as text.  When I try to tell firefox what to do with odp files (open them in ooffice), I can't ADD mime types, only edit and remove them.  This is ridiculous.  This is a confirmed issue!

Comment 7

[Kevin Brosnan]

Firefox won't open some file types that are on a blacklist, comment 3 says that mdb is on the list so Firefox will only offer to save the file. This is the expected behavior. 

Comment 6 is describing a misconfigured server the open office mime types need to be added to the .htaccess file.