289896 - attachment selection dialog does not display filename extensions

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[mfishman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 MITLL
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 MITLL

When using the file-attachment dialog to select a file to attach to a new
message, the selection window does not display extensions on filenames, even
though extensions are visible in standard MS-WIndows file-management tools
(Windows Explorer and My Computer).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a new message.
2.left-click in attachment pane, or right-click in attachment pane and choose
Attach File.
3.Look in selection window: file extensions are not visible.

Actual Results:  
Extensions on filenames (e.g., .exe, .zip, .pdf) are not displayed.

Expected Results:  
Filename extensions should be displayed, or should follow the preference
established for other MS-Windows file dialogs. Not being able to see the
extensions on filenames is a potential security hazard, and is certainly an
inconvenience. Extensions were displayed in Mozilla 1.7.3, which I used prior to
updating to 1.7.6; this is an unexpected change in behavior.

I use the Modern theme, as I have been doing in 1.7.3 (where extensions were
displayed).

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This works for me with Moz 1.7.6, Win2K.  The actual code for populating that 
listbox and displaying the contents is Windows code, rather than anything custom 
to Mozilla.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

WFM with Mozilla 1.7.7 on WinXP.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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