357953 - Unable to add a new download action

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[paolo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041129 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3.backports.org.1)
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.7

Can Remove, Change, but *not* Add a MIME type (action).





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. just go to prefs->downloads->actions...
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Actual Results:  
Can Remove, Change, but *not* Add a MIME type (action).

Expected Results:  
As enduser I'd expect to have fullcontrol from the (now) 'Add Action...' panel over which MIME/types are handled/disabled, with fullpower to override any plugin claim and system default.

OTOH as sysadmin I'd expect to have full control over which MIME/types plain users may have such fullcontrol or are locked to some system default, regardless of any system-wide or users settings/plugin.  

Seems that this feature (download / MIME type handling) has changed several times,  but still unfunctional in latest 1.5.x.

Netscape 4.x used to have add/remove MIME types buttons - but was a pain if a plugin claimed to handle a MIME type.
Mozilla/FF went through all sorts of mixed misbehaviour.

Comment 1

[paolo]

same in MacOSX, latest FF 1.5.0.7

Comment 2

[paolo]

correction: in OSX I get a bonus: go to OSX's 'Sys.Prefs' -> Quicktime -> disable plugin handling for image/tiff.

Back to FF, re-open, about:plugins shows that image/tiff is still wrongly handled by the QT plugin.

FF->prefs->Down.->Actions... only PNG is shown as MIME image handled by QT, then there are PDF, EPS, a few MMedia.

*Why* only PNG offers chance to change action? what about other MIME types taken over by QT (or any other plugin, for that matter)? 

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234245 ***

Comment 4

[paolo]

no, it isn't a duplicate, at least not wrt to the MIME type panel - plugin interaction mentioned in the OSX case: in #234245 it is argued that FF would list  new type in the MIME list on 1st chance it encounters a new one, then a MIME item would appear to enable user choice: that's not the case, pls read carefully the last post: the image/tiff MIME type never shows up, is always handled by QT plugin, and my only choice is to right-clic on the tiff, download then open with the proper app.

Please provide a real fix, an extensions to handle such is a broken solution to a broken problem.

Comment 5

[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 6

[Chris Blore]

Cannot confirm with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110704 Minefield/3.0a9pre

There has been no more recent action on this bug. Reporter, if you still are able to reproduce this bug on a more recent Firefox build, please feel free to reopen the bug. Thanks.

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