276262 - "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" does not work with word documents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236541

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Jerry]

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

When downloading a word document from g-mail, I clicked "do this automatically
from now on" to view the document in word. However, it does not work;However,
the "What should firefox do with this file" still appears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download a word document
2.click the "Do this automatically from now on"
3.try opening a word document again

Actual Results:  
It showed the "What should firefox do with this file"

Expected Results:  
It should skip the last step and just open the word document

Comment 1

[hjohn]

I'm having the same problem, with Torrent files.  They are configured to be
opened with Azureus, and I checked the "do it automatically" box.  However, the
box keeps appearing.

Comment 2

[Matthew Strait]

I can confirm this for Firefox 1.0 in Linux for (at least) PDF files.

Comment 3

[Jeff Evans]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 236541

Comment 4

[Ian Pottinger]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236541 ***