Closed Bug 298860 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Cannot open attachments with double click or right click > open

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
Thunderbird1.1

People

(Reporter: ispiked, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050625 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050625 Firefox/1.0+

You cannot open an attachment by double clicking it or doing right click > open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find e-mail with attachment. 
2. Try to open it in by double clicking or right clicking and selecting open.

Actual Results:  
No action.

Expected Results:  
Open the attachment.

I attempted to track down a regression and narrowed it down to between
2005-06-10 and 2005-06-11. The only check-in that jumps out at me between this
time is the one from bug 288273.
I see this regression too.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird1.1
My checkin is certainly a likely culprit, but this works fine for me on both
machines I tried it on - I tried .txt and .html attachments. Do you see any
exceptions on the js console?
JS Errors:

Considering text/plain alternative
Considering text/html alternative
JS Component Loader: ERROR (null):0
                     uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property RegEx
p.constructor
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) failed, file c:/build/trees/dbg/mozill
a/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp, line 1727
Depends on: 298478
I receive this exception too on windows by nightly build 20050627:

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property RegExp.constructor
It's an odd one - some attachments work, and some don't.  I can't see an obvious
pattern to it eg an MP3 here works fine, but a .doc file doesn't.
All things displayed inline such as text and jpgs seem to work OK if double
clicked on.
I can only open the eml attachment. I cannot open any file like doc, zip, pdf,
etc. even those that display with the message like jpg, or text files (tex,
Matlab m)
OS: Windows XP SP2; 
Thunderbird: Version 1.0+ (20050626)

i recieve the same jscript condition when i double click any attachment:
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property RegExp.constructor
this was indeed fixed by Bug 298478
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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