271898 - "Autour du romantisme" CD-ROM gives error

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Misty De Meo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

"Autour du romantisme: le roman" is an academic CD-ROM produced by Trevi, which
contains complete novel texts with a searchable interface, etc. It works
properly with Internet Explorer, and presumeably the antiquated Netscape it
comes with, but not with a more modern Firefox. When attempting to begin using
the software, it gives the error "unable to open HTML\Choix\choix.htm (19)"
(using the address http://127.0.0.1:9088/HTML/Choix/choix.htm); attempting to
open that file using the File --> Open dialog box works only briefly; later
pages also fail to load. It's very possible that the CD-ROM is just doing evil
nonstandard things which make it break. ;3 But I hoped that there might be some
legitimate problem that could be fixed, since I actually have to set my default
browser to IE to use it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch software
2. Click "Consulter"
3. Click "Commencer"
4. :(
Actual Results:  
The software gives the "unable to open HTML\Choix\choix.htm (19)" error message.

Expected Results:  
The software should hopefully have launched the HTML interface.

The bug appears in the default configuration.

Comment 1

[Troodon]

I think it could be related or dupe of bug 84128 and/or bug 122022.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It seems like the error message is coming from the CD-ROM program and not
Firefox itself. Can you confirm that that is the case?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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