613850 - "Remember the operation for this type of files" doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Rado]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: Firefox 4.0b7

When I want to download an avi file and click on its link a window appears which asks me about the way I want Firefox to behave about this type of files. I selected "Save the file..." but the little square where I must put a tick didn't become available.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a website for free downloading of music and video.
2. Choose to download a file format which IS NOT in firefox's list of applications. Left click on it.* - see the note below
3. A window should appear asking you what do you wanna do about this file. Select "Save the file" and see that the tick square doesn't "light up", so you can't tell firefox to remember this operation for this type of files.

*About this I must note that if you choose to download a mp3 file you must not have QuickTime installed on your PC. If you have it the computer will play the mp3 file online and you won't be able to reproduce the bug. So, if you have QuickTime installed you should choose to download an AVI file.


Expected Results:  
If "Save the file" is selected the small tick-square below should become clickable.

A screenshot of the bug:
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1089/ff40b7bug.gif

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I can not reproduce this with a current Firefox 66 on windows 10
The "remember" checkbox will not be available if the server sends the file that you want to download as "application/octet-stream". I guess that this was the case or something different that got fixed in the last 8 years.