84395 - unable to remove helper app for application/octet-stream after encountering bug 79837

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 88287

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P4)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spun off from bug 79837 --not sure if it's a really a dup of it, but it might be
the cause of this. found using 2001.06.06.03-branch comm bits on mac, when
trying to download an .exe file.

recipe:
0. make sure you do *not* have a helper application defined for
applicaton/octet-stream. if you do, go to Preferences dialog > Helper
Applications and remove it. to be sure, quit and restart the app after doing so.
1. go to either an http or ftp site which contains .exe files, eg:
  http://law.mcom.com/download.html --if someone could provide a public one, pls
do!
  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/
2. single-click the link for the .exe. in the samples in step (1) use:
  http - click any of the "via http" links
  ftp - go into a dir that contains such a file and click it
3. when the dialog from bug 79837 appears [see the screenshot there], wait a
1-2sec, then click the Cancel button.
4. now, create/edit the helper app [via the prefs dialog]:
   Description: Exe file handler
   Extension: exe
   action ["handled by"]: save to disk
5. repeat steps 1-2; when the download dialog appears [which should look fine],
click OK and save the file.
6. go into Prefs dialog > Helper Apps, and remove the helper app for
application/octet-stream.
7. click OK to save/dismiss Prefs dialog.
8. quit and restart app.
9. reopen Prefs dialog > Helper Apps.

observe: the entry for application/octet-stream is still there.

workaround: after step 9, quit and restart the browser again. but make sure
during this session to *not* do a download --just go directly into prefs and
remove the helper app entry. quit and restart yet again. the entry should then
be removed.

Comment 1

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

I've posted a fix for 79837. Then we'll pick up the internet config setting for 
octet-stream and the helper app dialog will look okey dokey. Therefore marking 
nsbeta1-, p4, and mozilla1.0 since we should look into why the pref can't be 
removed.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

fwiw, this is still occurring using 2001.06.25.08-branch comm bits [mac].

passing this over to pchen, since bill is away.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88287 ***

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"