444086 - Opening .mht file in Firefox 3 causes empty tabs opening nonstop.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218257

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[kozicnik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

When I tried to open .mht web archive file in Firefox, it displayed no content and just kept opening new blank tabs.
It was possible to close Firefox in a regular way while this was happening, so it did't freeze the program.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a webpage in IE (used IE 6 for this, tried several webpages)
2. Save as "Web Archive, single file"
3. Try to open it with Firefox

The same when I saved a Powerpoint 2003 presentation as .mht
Actual Results:  
Many open blank tabs and new ones popping up, quite funny to look at.

Expected Results:  
File open in one tab, content visible.

I installed Firefox 3 just today. Default theme.
Some plugins/addons from previous Firefox2 installation, but nothing unusual.