Closed
Bug 42015
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
[RFE] Ability to run .exe files from webpages
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)
Core Graveyard
File Handling
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 106094
mozilla0.9.9
People
(Reporter: ian, Assigned: law)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: [smartupdate])
When you click on an exe file in Internet Explorer you are presented with a
dialog asking you if you want to open the file or save it to disk, I would like
similar functionallity added to Mozilla.
Comment 1•24 years ago
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RFE, so confirming (was unable to find a dup). This just requires saving the
file to a temporary folder and then executing it from there upon completion;
it's not really "running it from the site" as IE makes it seem. I don't know
who would implement this, though. networking, maybe?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 2•24 years ago
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so the "run" option would replace "pick app..." for certain types of files?
Reporter | ||
Comment 3•24 years ago
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Yes, but it is important that the file is run from its existing location.
I intend this mainly for magazine coverdisks which are increasingly using HTML.
When they link to setup files these need to be run from the CD, as they are
often large and may have relational links to other files on the CD.
A copy-and-run solution would be better than nothing, however. Especially if it
would be trivial to implement.
Comment 4•24 years ago
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XP Apps?
Comment 5•24 years ago
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over to Networking for initial look. Feel free to bounce it right back if this
isnt a networking issue.
Assignee: asa → gagan
Component: Browser-General → Networking
QA Contact: doronr → tever
ben is the one doing the UI but I think some of the recent changes with Helper
Apps issues will resolve this.
Assignee: gagan → ben
Comment 7•24 years ago
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I think mscott said the new helper app dialog would have a run option a la IE.
Reporter | ||
Comment 8•24 years ago
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Tested with Netscape 6 PR3 and there was no such option. I set the helper app to
c:/winnt/explorer.exe and got an error about a missing dll. I am running Win2k.
Comment 10•24 years ago
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*** Bug 60814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11•24 years ago
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As talked about in bug 60814, this is an intersting feature. I'm currently
working on it in my spare time. A few things though.
1) I don't feel this is a networking issue at all. The approach I'm taking is to
hook into the MIME type detection, or even just the file's extention.
2) To 'Lemming'. There is no such thing as "run from current location" in
reality. What happens is the file is downloaded to the temp directory, and then
executed. This is what IE really does, and it's the only real way to do it
outside of creating a native app to DL the data to RAM and execute it. You can't
stream executable files. Well, maybe there could be a way devised to do it, but
it doesn't happen in the same manner as media files.
For further info, read the comments from bug 60814.
Comment 12•24 years ago
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Adding me to the CC lsit. Sorry for the spam. My brain isn't multitasking well
today. Every time I try to do more than one thing at a time, the world looks
blue, I see odd text with strange numbers, and I can't move or talk until some
one smacks me upside the head.
Comment 13•24 years ago
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IE actually can run local programs, and it doesn't copy them to the cache
before running them. See bug 59932 for an rfe that would let Mozilla do the
same.
Comment 14•24 years ago
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But that relates to IE's shell abilities, and is not inreality part of the
browser. The Intergration of the two has blurred the lines, but it actualyl
calls different libraries when browsing local disks.
Comment 15•24 years ago
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*** Bug 60814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16•24 years ago
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fwiw. On NT you can run app streams. iirc Borland's Delphi offers this
feature.
Beyond that. I would like people to read bug 60814 before they implement
anything. >Don't remove this dependency<
Depends on: 60814
Comment 17•24 years ago
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Dupliced with 59932
And I have told that same bug is excuting exe from local disk.
But This bug will told more than only excuting exe.
Comment 18•24 years ago
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Dupliced with 59932
And I have told that same bug is excuting exe from local disk.
But This bug will told more than only excuting exe.
I do this *everyday* ftom ftp://sweetlou, getting my commercial builds, I just
double click ns6setup.exe and it prompts me to Open this file or Save to Disk.
Naturally, I open this file, and it automatically runs the setup program. Am I
missing something here?
Comment 20•24 years ago
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Holy crap. I never thought to use the "Open with" without any selection. Well,
smakc me with a large trout. Thta's half my project done. Next is a warning when
doing this.
Comment 21•24 years ago
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stephend: you're missing nothing, but everyone else is missing an intuitive UI.
Comment 22•23 years ago
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This is such a useful feature, and it's already been implemented; let's not
waste time going the extra tenth of a mile and exposing it to users. Bill,
what's the least hackish way to determine the extension of the filetype being
downloaded (not having explored helper app dlg code yet)? Matthew, can you
offer some UI advice here?
Updated•23 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: P3 → P1
Updated•23 years ago
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Whiteboard: [smartupdate]
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → mozilla0.9.2
Reporter | ||
Comment 23•23 years ago
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It should not be done by file extention, it should be done by the type of the
data (whatever the equivilent of text/html is), if this is possible.
Most windows magazine cover disks use HTML interfaces, so people can only use
them in IE. Adding this feature would make Mozilla seem like a better browser
to the journalists, so they would hopefully write about it in a more positive
light, increasing user base.
Comment 24•23 years ago
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so you want us to register application/vnd.microsoft.windows.win32 and map .exe
to that mime type? [a] we can 't do that (we aren't microsoft). [b] that's
yucky. [c] what happens when the file really should have been
application/vnd.microsoft.dos or application/vnd.microsoft.winnt.posix or ...
application/vnd.unknown.dos.protectedmode ...
Assuming you don't want us to register lots of silly mime types, we'd rely on
something like application/octetstream (* there are probably 5-20 different
mime types all of which mean: binary, possibly executable) which could be a
solaris sparc binary or a macos binary (*macos binaries are likely to be
destroyed, but ...) and then we'd be doing the user a disfavor when we let them
'run' an 'application' (which clearly won't work)
Reporter | ||
Comment 25•23 years ago
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Calm down, by the very fact that I put 'whatever the equivilent of text/html is
' I showed that I did not know what the status of mime types for executables
was. I was merely pointing out that using file extensions was not a perfect
method, however it may be the best method.
Comment 26•23 years ago
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I think that we must added feature: EXE-files will be checked by Virusscan
before exe-files will be executed. It can be warn that it's not tested by
virusscan. Do you want to scan this file for unknown virus?
Comment 27•23 years ago
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While I should have noted a long time ago I am currently unable to contribute
code, I feel the need to adda reply now. When you say Virus Scan, are you
meaning the name of an actual product, or just virus scanners in general? No two
programs use the same format for command arguments, etc. But also, many good
scanners scan files upon execution I use Norton, and it scans EXEs automatically
upon the program being launched. I see no need to double up there.
Comment 28•23 years ago
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you can select one of scanners. This feature that you can switch : scan this
file or block EXE for Security.
It can used for exes from internet. but it will not for exes from localhost.
Comment 29•23 years ago
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Please address virus scanning in a seperate bug. AIM does offer virusscanning
support in its interface but that is _FAR_ beyond the scope of this bug.
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.2 → mozilla0.9.3
Updated•23 years ago
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Priority: P1 → --
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.3 → mozilla1.0
Comment 31•23 years ago
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usability/polish, 0.9.4.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0 → mozilla0.9.4
Reporter | ||
Comment 32•23 years ago
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Are you sure? This doesn't look fixed to me...
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.4 → mozilla0.9.5
Updated•23 years ago
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Status: REOPENED → ASSIGNED
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.5 → mozilla0.9.6
Comment 34•23 years ago
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law has this item, i believe.
Assignee: blakeross → law
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.6 → ---
Assignee | ||
Comment 35•23 years ago
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*** Bug 102760 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Assignee | ||
Comment 37•23 years ago
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yes, I know this bug predates that one by a lot, but that's the bug we created
for this feature in MachV
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106094 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 39•23 years ago
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->file handling w/ qa.
Component: Networking → File Handling
QA Contact: benc → sairuh
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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