350325 - clicking on "open" does not open anything

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[eric]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5

clicking on the open button does not open anything. No message - no action.
Clicking on remove does remove the entry in the download manager.

Edit->Preferences->Downloads->View & Edit Action-> Remove Action or Change Action are greyed. I can't change anything

about:config : pref.downloads.disable_button.edit_actions is set to false. When I change it to true, for example, it is set again to false by the "view & edit action" window. ( I thought about a true/false inversion for this key).
This problem does not appear with windows XP. I use KDE and files associations are right.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[u279076]

I still see this using the latest nightly build ID 2007080704.

When I click on the open link, the link goes red temporarily.  This shows that the onClick event is firing, but the file cannot be opened through download manager.  When you click on the file to download initially and select "open with" instead of "save" it will open with the right program.  Otherwise, you have to open the file through it's save location.

I have tried this with multiple documents from multiple sources, including an open office document from webmail, a tar.gz of firefox 2006 from www.mozilla.com, and a video clip from www.gamershell.com.

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I still see this using the latest nightly build ID 2007080704.
Are you seeing it on Linux as well as other platforms or what?

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I use KDE and files associations are right.
ah, I missed this originally.  We use the Gnome VFS api's to open files, so using KDE is likely the issue...

Comment 5

[eric]

hmmm. Well: I submitted this bug one year ago. I still see this bug on gentoo and debian, using KDE.

Comment 6

[eric]

As you wrote that firefox uses Gnome VFS, the 2.16 version of it was installed on my system, but this feature of firefox was not working.
After some tries (and a Gnome installation), the fact is that firefox is asking for Gnome file associations! If no Gnome software is installed, it does not work.

pdf file is a good example: when clicking on a link in the download manager, firefox is launching evince, not kpdf! The same applies for each file type.
As a consequence, this feature of firefox does not work if Gnome is not installed. Making gnome VFS a dependence of firefox is useless, since it does not launch any kde application.

I wish to leave this bug in an open state, since it really denotes a wrong integration of firefox within kde.

Comment 11

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Mass-removing myself from cc; search for 12b9dfe4-ece3-40dc-8d23-60e179f64ac1 or any reasonable part thereof, to mass-delete these notifications (and sorry!)

Comment 12

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Comment 13

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
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Comment 14

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this is a platform bug, that after so many years would be complicate to debug. We'll rather check more recent similar reports.