562015 - Clicking into a binary file in "Page Source" makes Firefox unresponsive, prompt to download instead

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Clicking a link to a binary file in "View Source" causes lack of responsiveness and display of the binary file as ASCII. I would have expected to have been prompted to download the file. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://mirror.facebook.net/mozilla/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/
2. View -> Page Source
3. Click the link to Firefox Setup 3.6.exe in the page source viewer.
4. See ASCII of binary, experience poor performance when reading large files.
Actual Results:  
Lack of responsiveness and display of the binary file as ASCII.

Expected Results:  
I would have expected to have been prompted to download the file.

Comment 1

[timeless]

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I don't think that the reporter is getting a crash. He should see the usual very slow perfomance when Gecko renders x mb binary data.