266993 - Directly opening a swf file/location tries to save the file instead of using the flash plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Elliot Glaysher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When opening an SWF file either through Open File or pointing firefox at the
URL, the save-or-open-with-this-program dialogue comes up. Flash content plays
fine when embeded in a webpage.

Flash is installed according to about:plugins, but in
Edit->Preferences->Downloads->Plugins, there's no entry for Shockwave flash.

I've installed flash manually through gentoo portage, and then uninstalled it
and used firefox's plugin installing system. Both times I can view flash when
embeded in a webpage, but can't point my browser at the content directly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. File->Open File...
2. Select a SWF file on your hard drive.

Actual Results:  
The Save-or-open dialogue comes up.

Expected Results:  
The file should of been opened and handled by the installed flash plugin.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029
Firefox/1.0RC1

Works for me. I can't test on Linux though.

Comment 2

[Elliot Glaysher]

Okay, disabling all extentions fixes this. I must have something interfering...

That said, flash still doesn't show up on the plugins page of the
Preferences->Downloads->Plugin ins...