407599 - Firefox won't open MHTML documents from a website. Default action [IE] works correctly.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18764

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[John Traynor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

Attempts to open any .mht links fail using Firefox, but work correctly if the default action using Internet Explorer is used.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.traynorInCarefree.com
2.From the home page [default.aspx], click on the "See 'Carefree Cares' unmasked" link
3.When the "Opening" dialog box appears, select Open with firefox.exe
Actual Results:  
Firefox tries to open the file from the user Temp subdirectory on the C: drive instead of from the true website link.  It will then loop, especially if the "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" radio button was selected.

Expected Results:  
Proper display of the page, which is a essentially a Word document that had been created as a single webpage.  If Internet Explorer (default) is used instead of Firefox to open the MHTML file, the correct result is obtained.

I have screen shots, if they are needed and/or would help.

Comment 1

[John Traynor]

Attachment: Screen shot of error box.