273707 - Download manager ignores preferred application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236389

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Peter da Silva]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

I have selected a third-party application (Mount) to handle DMG images. When
Firefox downloads a DMG image it sometimes sets the file type and owner to some
random gibberish (eg: ' !î`') and opens them in Disk Copy.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download http://www.indyjt.com/software/iEatBrainz/iEatBrainz_source.dmg
2.Select "Open" from download manager, or
3.View finder info.

Actual Results:  
Opened in Disk Copy, file 'owner' was ' !î`'.

Expected Results:  
Opened in Mount, file owner should be <None>.

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

This only applies to DMG files.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253004 ***

Comment 2

[Peter da Silva]

This is not a duplicate of 253004 - this has nothing to do with Firefox
preferences, or whether Firefox uses LaunchServices for DMG files, it's about
Apple's preferences as set in Finder. Whatever the user's set in the Firefox
preferences, it should save the files with either the correct Finder info or
with NO Finder info... it's never appropriate to put random data in the Finder info.

This is not necessarily just DMG files, I've occasionally found other files I've
downloaded with odd Finder Info, but I haven't been able to reproduce the
problem as reliably.

Comment 3

[Lennart Staflin]

When I download a .dmg file its creator get set to "hDmp" (HexEdit) and type
"BINA". It seems consistently repeatable.

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Peter da Silva]

(In reply to comment #3)
> When I download a .dmg file its creator get set to "hDmp" (HexEdit) and type
> "BINA". It seems consistently repeatable.

Note that this is also not appropriate.

Firefox MUST save files using either the LaunchServices settings, or with no
Finder type/creator flags. It MUST NOT generate the Finder type/creator
information if it's not capable of setting it correctly.

Comment 6

[Peter da Silva]

Verified: it is no longer setting the type/creator to random gibberish, but it's
still setting it to hDmp/BINA.

Comment 7

[jwq]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4

This behaviour (incorrect/inappropriate type and creator set for downloaded dmg [and PDF files]) has been a long-standing irritation for me with Mozilla and now SeaMonkey. I believe that it's part of the problem described in Bug 236389.

Peter: Perhaps this bug should be marked a duplicate of Bug 236389? (please do so, if you agree)