67549 - Registered helper application doesn't view images

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Tomoo Nomura]

I registered Kodakprv.exe as image/tiff viewer in preference helper application.
When I open a tiff attachment, however, Mozilla askes to open or save it in
Open/Save Attachment window. It is OK, but even choose "Open", it still asks to
Open or Save it in Downloading window. I have to choose "Open using" again and
point where Kodakprv.exe is located. Word(doc), Exel(xls) or Asf file is
automatically choose their application in Downloading window. Additional helper
application should be chosen automatically in Downloading window as well as doc
or xls.
This is a re-post from 66106 separately.

Comment 1

[Adam Lock]

Reassigning to XP Apps

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

I am not sure what the error is here...Reporter what build are you using?

Comment 3

[Tomoo Nomura]

Using Mozilla 0.7

Comment 4

[Tomoo Nomura]

I confirmed it is still seen on Mozilla M18 Gecko/20010207

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW as per comments by reporter.

Comment 6

[Chris McAfee]

helper apps, pchen can you look at this?

Comment 7

[Jamie Wilmoth]

I believe this is the same thing I'm experiencing.  I'm trying to have it
display non-inlined/embedded images (gif/jpeg/etc.) either via a direct link to
them or the 'view image' context menu option, using an assigned external viewer
application, rather than displaying them using a browser window.

I added the mime image/gif and image/jpeg types along with the file extentions
in the helper apps options, but it still displays them using the browser.

I'm currently using Mozilla 0.8 "Build ID: 2001021508" under Windows 98 SE.

For reference, if any use, Netscape 3.x handled this correctly; the early
versions of Netscape 4.x had this same problem; then later versions of Netscape
4.x finally had it working the way I wanted again.  (I know you're not using the
Netscape 4.x code at all for this version, but might help someone recognize the
problem.)

Comment 8

[Peter Onyisi]

My guess is that this problem extends to all mime types in
nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp -- at least I notice that I can't get a helper
application to launch for postscript, but I can for PDF.  (Linux, build 2001033019)

Comment 9

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

I see this on linux too. This should be marked as "All"

This is also a definite regression, and in my opinion should be targeted for 0.9
or 0.9.1. This is a serious usability problem for some of us.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 76213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Eric Vaandering (no email)]

Is this fixed completely in the latest nightlies? My symptom of this bug was
always that mozilla would ignore my choice of a helper app for postscript files.
That is no longer happening in the latest builds. I know a lot of work has gone
into helper apps recently. Maybe this one has been fixed as a result?

Comment 12

[mozilla]

the problem with not using an external viewer for mimetype image/* exists in
linux as well.  Even with a helper app registered for gif/jpep/anything else
handled by the browser natively, the browser will always render the image itself
instead of calling the helper app.

Comment 13

[Don Blaheta]

It really seems like this should have keyword 4xp---netscape has no problems
parcelling gifs and jpgs out to xv, where I can crop, flip, and resize to my
heart's delight. :)

Comment 14

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 93042 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[edburns]

I'm still seeing this on Win32.

Comment 16

[Paul Chen]

-> law

Comment 17

[edburns]

From: "Greg Spath" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Fw: [Bug 67549] Registered helper application doesn't view images
Date: 04 Sep 2001 21:11:51 EDT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Mime-Version: 1.0

Hi,
I'm sick of this problem, so i developed my own workaround.  You will
need Perl, the Digest::MD5 module, and a copy of wget (there is a
windows version at http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html)

I *think* the windows version of perl will do the proper translation on
filenames when opening files, otherwise you'll need to edit the "/'s"in
the script to "\\'s".

webimage and other things I've written are at:
http://freefall.homeip.net/code/

-- Greg

Comment 18

[Bill Law]

Won't be able to deal with this near term.

Comment 19

[Fredrik Ax]

Images that are shown inline with Mozilla isn't opened by the specified helper,
but still showed inline.
Example: Accessing a URL 
http://server.domain.com/image.jpg
you get a correct respnse from the server with 
Content-Type: image/jpeg

Even though I created a Type "image/jpeg" in Preferences-Helper Applications
using a different appliucation to open the file the image is shown inline
in mozilla.

It uses the same behaviour when right-clicking on images and selection "View Image".

I'm using Mozilla 0.9.5 on linux:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011023

Comment 20

[Tobias Kunze-Briseño]

any chance this could be fixed soon?  it's a real showstopper..

Comment 21

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So what is the bug here?  The original report is that image/tiff is not viewed
by the relevant helper.  The later comments all talk about handling image/jpeg
with a helper instead of internally... those are two completely distinct issues
(and the second has bugs on it already).  Is the original bug still present?

Comment 22

[Tomoo Nomura]

The original bug seems to have been solved since a few months ago.

Comment 23

[Koike Kazuhiko]

2002030108/Linux can open tiff file with gimp and ps file with gv.
This bug can be marked as worksforme.

Comment 24

[David Richardson]

With 0.9.9 (Gecko/20020311, build 2002031115) under RedHat 7.2 I cannot view jpg
or gif images in external helpers. I have similar problems under WindowsXP
(using ACDSee instead of ee).

I started with a virgin preferences directory, and created helpers as follows:
               GIF               JPG
Extension:     gif (or .gif)     jpg
MIME:          image/gif         image/jpeg
App:           /usr/bin/ee       /usr/bin/ee

No external helper is launched. I was able to have gv handle postscript files
just fine (ext:ps mime:application/postscript app:gv).

This is a definite show-stopper for me. It's bad enough that I'm still using
Netscape 4.7.

This is definitely not resolved.

Comment 25

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

David, you're seeing bug 58557 ("Mozilla allows you to override internal MIME
types to no effect").  This bug was initially about image/tiff which is a
non-internal type hence not subject to the issues at hand.

Comment 26

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying WorksForMe bugs.

reopen only if this bug is still a problem with a *recent trunk build*.

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