60166 - Some weirdness involving helper apps, including abnormal termination of Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[David Charlap]

This may be a duplicate of Bug 57582.  If it is, feel free to move my comments 
over there.

Using last night's Linux build (downloaded on the night of 14-November-2000 - 
sorry I don't have the build number on-hand right now), I tried to access some 
RealPlayer content.

Just clicking on the link to the content braught up the "unknown type" dialog.  
it asked me for a path to the helper app.  I provided this path 
(/usr/local/bin/realplay).  The app ran properly.

After it played, I clicked on another real player link.  It asked for the path 
again.  It should have remembered what I typed in last time.

Then, I went to Edit->Preferences->Helper Apps and filled in an entry for the 
MIME type (audio/x-pn-realaudio) and pointed it at the same app.  Now, when I 
click on a real player link, Mozilla exits.  There doesn't appear to be a 
relevant message on the console when this happens.

Comment 1

[av (gone)]

Reassigning to helper apps owner.

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter is this still a problem in the latest nightlies?

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Marking WORKSFORME due to lack of response. Feel free to reopen this if its
still occuring in the latest nightlies.

Comment 4

[David Charlap]

I just retested it.  Still happening on Linux with build 2001010211.

If it helps, here are the exact steps I use to reproduce this:

1: Delete previous Mozilla installation.  Wipe out the entire directory and
unpack the tarball at that location.  To prevent any conflicts from old files.

2: Delete the ~/.mozilla directory

3: Run Mozilla.  It asks to convert my Netscape 4 profile.  The problem occurs
both when I convert my Netscape 4 profile and when I create a new profile.

4: Click on the thumb for the sidebar to collapse it.  Resize the window to
something larger than the default size.

5: Go to this URL: http://www.scifi.com/cityofdreams/episode02/episode02.html
then click on the "(listen in Hi Fi)" link to play the presentation.

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW as per comments.

Comment 6

[karnaze (gone)]

shrir, is this still a problem? Marking m0.9.1 mscott, Can you meet this 
milestone? 

Comment 7

[David Charlap]

In response to your e-mail, shrir, yes this bug has not magically fixed itself. 
Today's build (2001032708) is still showing this problem, exactly as I've
described.

If you can't reproduce it, then let me know what other information you may
require and I'll tell you.

If you're just asking me because nobody's gotten around to even running my test
case, then I suggest you take the five minutes it takes to run it.  Sending me
e-mail every few months asking "is it fixed yet" when nothing has changed is a
waste of my time.

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.2

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

adding PDT+

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.3

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.4

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

triage meeting --> .9.5

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

triaging.

Comment 14

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 15

[Sergey Lunegov]

WFM on Linux Redhat 7.1 for CVS trunk build from 20020130.
Browser doesn't exit or crash. 

Comment 16

[Andreas Kunz]

David or anybody, can you reproduce this?
It was last seen two years ago and hope is that this bug might finally have
"magically fixed itself" by now...

Comment 17

[David Charlap]

It appears to have "magically fixed itself".  I've been using a Mac for most of
the past year so I can't say when it started working, but I just tried it using
the 1.3 release on Linux (RedHat 8.0) and I think it's working correctly.

I wasn't asked to pick an application.  It just read my .mailcap file and
launched Real Player as expected.

Comment 18

[Andreas Kunz]

So let's "magically" resolve this as WORKSFORME.
If it happens again, you can reopen this bug.

On Edit - Preferences - Helper Applications you can edit what happens with
content of a specific type. There you can also make Mozilla to open the "What
should I do with this?" dialog again in case you have previously clicked "Don't
ask me again".