274290 - 'open containing folder' fails, gives "external application" warning instead

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Chris Moore]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

from the download manager, if I right-click any download and click 'open
containing folder', I don't see the containing folder, but instead see a warning
dialog:

External Protocol Request
-------------------------

An external application must be launched to handle file: links. Requested link:

file:///C:%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5CChris%5CDesktop%5CDownloads

If you werenot expecting this request it may be an attempt to exploit a weakness
in that other program.  Cancel this request unless you are sure it is not malicious.

[] Remember my choice for all links of this type.

   [Launch Application]  [Cancel]

It doesn't tell me which application it wants to launch, and if I click
'launch', apparently nothing happens.


The same happens if I click on the "Downloads" button at the very bottom of the
dialog window.  Also, if I click into the tools menu, then 'options' and
'downloads', there's a "show folder" button in there, which also causes the same
behaviour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. click 'show folder' in the downloads configuration screen, or right-click any
downloaded item and click 'show containing folder', or click the folder icon at
the very bottom of the download manager


Actual Results:  
I see the 'external application' warning dialog, as described above.

Expected Results:  
Shown me my downloads folder using Windows Explorer.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

What specific file-type is this occuring with? Unless you can provide a working
test case then I'm going with WFM on this one.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050523
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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