298369 - If executable configured to open downloaded file is moved, firefox download doesn't complete and does not indicate that executable is missing

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[withheld]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

In this situation, downloading .torrent files and opening them with azureus
which was moved from /home/user/azureus to /usr/local/azureus. Download fails to
finish and no exeception caught to indicate that azureus is no longer available
to open binary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install application to open files
2. Install firefox and configure application to open files
3. Move application to non-path directory
4. attempt to download through browser the application file-type.
Actual Results:  
Download fails to complete and no indication of problem is received.

Expected Results:  
IMHO, the software should be throwing either an error dialog that the "Open
with" is broken and/or displaying the Save file dialog to indicate to the user
such a misconfiguration has occured.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.