442734 - Dragging gzipped image to desktop leaves image gzipped

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 363408

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Aaron Adams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

This is related to bug 363408, reported in Firefox 2; this is observed in Firefox 3.

https://kanuck.freshbooks.com/logo.php/login.v1210777020

Drag this file to your desktop; it's still a gzipped file, but without the .gz extension. Hence, the OS doesn't recognize it.

File > Save As works as expected.

(Obviously it makes no sense to gzip images, but that's the problem of the Web server that's wasting its own cycles doing so!)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag a gzipped image to the desktop.
Actual Results:  
image.ext is a gzipped image.

Expected Results:  
image.ext is an un-gzipped image.
(Alternately, image.ext.gz is a gzipped image.)

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I've confirmed this in both FF3 and FF2 on OS X 10.5.3.

I've also confirmed it in Windows with FF2, though not FF3 (which
produces an ungzipped login.png file).

On Linux, dragging to the desktop (in FF2 or FF3) doesn't produce an
image at all, but a text file containing a link to the image.

I've no idea what's going on here :-(

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

this is an old bug, dupe of #363408