875769 - exe file handling is completely broken since landing of Bug 862088

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Build Identifier:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/df526497d949
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130524 Firefox/24.0 ID:20130524031033

STR #1
1. Open http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
2. Click Green Download Button

STR #2
1. Enter http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/firefox-24.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe in Location Bar and Keypress ENTER

STR #3
1. Open http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/
2. Right click on firefox-24.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
3. Choose Save Link As..

Actual Results:
Nightly try to play the exe file as mp3 .
Save as type is "MP3 Format Sound(*.exe)" in Save As dialog.

Expected Results:
Opening foobar.exe dialog should pop up.
Save as type should be "Binary File(*.exe;*.com;*.bin)" in Save As dialog.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

PS
I was surprised at a fact that Mozilla did not provide an automatic test for such basic function...

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Also I can confirm the problem in ubuntu 12.04LTS.
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/df526497d949
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130524 Firefox/24.0 ID:20130524031033

Comment 3

[gabriel2007]

I have the same problem , Nightly 24.0a1

Comment 7

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Bug 862088 backed out.
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/218785bab4bd

Comment 9

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Verified fixed FF 24b10, 26.0a1 (2013-09-09)