84695 - Open File doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jon Willeke]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060703

The Open File dialog does not work, although the Choose File dialog (accessed
from the Open Web Location dialog) does.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Open File from the File menu.
2. Browse to an HTML file.
3. Click Open.

Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  The selected HTML file should have been opened.

This happens for images, as well.

Comment 1

[beanladen]

Have seen a variant of this bug on 0.9.1 Linux gcc-2.95 build:
1) Get a http://x.y.z/file.html  with a <A HREF="file:///a/b/c/local.html">local</A>
link (on your own machine, own local.html, readable for anyone)
2) Click on the link --> nothing happens
3) enter the same link into the location bar --> contents appears

Comment 2

[timeless]

[e-mail]: that is _NOT_ a bug. Nor is it this bug. Seriously 
it's a security feature.

anyways, i'm sending this bug to xpappsgui features

Comment 3

[beanladen]

But this security feature even prevents me from
viewing my OWN files on my local machine !

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

wfm using 2001.06.11.09 trunk bits and 2001.06.07.13 branch bits on winnt
[commercial], following Jon's steps.

Jon, is this still a problem for you, ie, with a more recent build?

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of WorksForMe bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this,
set your search string to "IfItWorksForSlappyTheSquirrelThenItWFM".

if you think this particular bug is *still* an open issue, please make sure of
the following before reopening:

a. that it's still a problem with ***recent trunk builds*** on the all
appropriate platform[s]

b. provide clear steps to reproduce (unless a good test case is already in the
bug report), making sure it pertains to the original problem (avoid morphing as
much as possible :)

Comment 6

[Jon Willeke]

Looks good in 0.9.4 and 0.9.7 for Windows.