374575 - Open the JNLP file directly

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Tony Zhou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

The Java Web Start file (*.jnlp, its mime type is application/x-java-jnlp-file) should be executed directly by javaws, rather than popup the download choice window. This is because many users do not know jnlp at all, and the popped download window totally confuses them. Direct executing is the default behavior in IE and opera. The security is not a issue since jnlp's execution needs user's confirmation.
If java is not installed, the browser should be directed to a java plugin's installation page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on the jnlp url link
Actual Results:  
A download opening popup window is shown

Expected Results:  
The jnlp file should be executed directly by javaws.

Comment 1

[christoph gille]

This one is related
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374575

Comment 2

[Marcin Wisnicki]

This should depend on bug 137339.
If you pass jnlp url (instead of downloading it) to javaws it will do the right thing, e.g.:
$ javaws http://www.jgoodies.com/download/jdiskreport/jdiskreport.jnlp