287155 - pop-up notification each time for running exe files after download

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When downloading anything on my other computer, windows xp home and it is an exe
file, a pop-up notification will pop-up saying something about running exe's,
and then a check box will be available to skip the notification, or something
similar.  I will check the box, but every time after it will keep telling me the
same thing, and ask if I still want to run the exe file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download any .exe file.
2.Attempt to open it from the download manager.
3.Check the box saying don't show this notification next time you try to run an
.exe file.
4.Download another .exe file and attempt to open it.  The same notification pops
up every time, even after I check the box.

Actual Results:  
The same notification kept popping up.

Expected Results:  
The notification should no longer have been there.

Comment 1

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

*** Bug 287154 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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