351278 - Firefox tries to download aspx pages instead of rendering them

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Dave Thorp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2

If you click on the search for a job link firefox comes up with an open file window rather than rendering the next page. This seems to be true for all version of firefox in linux and not just the beta

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/index.html
2.Click on search for a job
3.Behold it not working

Actual Results:  
An open file dialogue box comes up. Clicking open has no effect

Expected Results:  
The next page should render in the firefox window. Fault seems isolated to linux builds as I never had any trouble in windows

Comment 1

[Dave Thorp]

Just tried steps to reproduce in windows version of firefox using WINE. Bug does not exist in windows build but exists in linux build

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060903 BonEcho/2.0b2

This works fine for me. Can you reproduce in a clean profile? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager

Comment 3

[Dave Thorp]

Bug reproduced in clean profile. Also reproduced in both current beta 2 and stable branch (1.5.0.6)

Also reproduced using both source download from mozilla.com and rpm package from update repositories.

Bug also exists in the KDE browser konqueror. Does not exist in the gnome browser epiphany or opera.

Am running SUSE linux. IF you aren't on SUSE it could be distro specific????

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

This WFM on Fedora Core 5 with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Comment 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

This is also WFM with Kantonix and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060911 BonEcho/2.0b2

Comment 7

[Dave Thorp]

can anyone with SUSE linux reproduce??

Comment 8

[[:Aleksej]]

WFM on Debian mixed Sarge and testing (Etch).
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060912 BonEcho/2.0b2

Comment 9

[Adam Guthrie]

I'm wondering if SUSE puts a weird MIME type in their mime.types file (/etc/mime.types or ~/.mime.types) that's causing us to want to download these files.

Does `grep -i "aspx" /etc/mime.types' or `grep -i "aspx" ~/.mime.types' return anything interesting?

Comment 10

[Dave Thorp]

Tried those in Konsole output as follows

dave@linux-6jzd:~> grep -i "aspx" /etc/mime.types
application/x-aspx aspx
dave@linux-6jzd:~> grep -i "aspx" ~/.mime.types
grep: /home/dave/.mime.types: No such file or directory

Comment 11

[Adam Guthrie]

If you comment out that line (by putting a # at the beginning of it) and restart Firefox, does the problem still persist?

Comment 12

[Dave Thorp]

Bug resolved!!!

Comment 13

[Jordi]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Bug resolved!!!
> 

I'm affraid not... try loading http://gallery.live.com

Still got this error, firefox 2.0 updated tries to download the file instead of loading it.

Comment 14

[Dave Thorp]

New link WFM. Have you carried out the steps to resolve as above

Comment 15

[Dave Thorp]

Bug present in new opensuse 10.2. Resolution by commenting out aspx from /etc/mime.types once again corrects this. Will file as a suse bug

Comment 16

[scarab100]

I am having the same issue with Firefox 2.0.0.1 whenever I try to use a site that uses *.aspx such as hotmail.  I have windows xp media center edition.  can someone explain to me how to "alter mime types" using as few acronyms as possible, or direct me to a more appropriate venue for my question.