540003 - Firefox 3.5.7 no longer accepts downloads of mail labels from US Postal Service.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Paul Hillman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

On Jan 11 it worked fine. I updated to Firefox/3.5.7 and it no longer works.  On the usps.gov site you can make up a mailing label for a package. When you are finished the USPS sends a file like "com.usps.cns.web.pdf.LabelGenerationServlet" which will open in Adobe Reader or Acrobat.  With the earlier version of Firefox (3.?.?) I would get a dialog box if I wanted to open or save the file.  Now when I request the file I get nothing.  No dialog box, nor is the file put into my downloads folder.  Note: this has never worked with Safari. It does still work with FireFox/3.0.8 on an Intel Mac.  I tried clearing Firefox complete history and rebooting, which didn't help 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Make box mailing label on www.usps.gov  site  (you need an account, its free)
2.  Accept all provisions, click continue
3.  Site says its processing request
4.  Asks if mail label printed correctly  (at this point there should be a dialog box asking you if you want to open or save the file)
Actual Results:  
Nothing prints, no file saved (but this didn't happen in earlier versions either)

Expected Results:  
at this point there should be a dialog box asking you if you want to open or save the file

If you say the file did not print you are not charged for the label.


Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/655f0b1c7f6a

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Paul: Is this still an issue ?