876065 - Download an executable with the type of application/octet-stream results in Firefox acting as if it is an MP3 file, and it tries to play it, and fails.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 875769

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Bryan Price]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130524 Firefox/24.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130524050555

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to download an executable such as:

http://update.antp.be/renamer/antrenamer2_install.exe

amongst others.  These problem downloads use a type of application/octet-stream.

Those downloads using application/x-msdos-program download correctly.  Which is what sourceforge.net uses for its .EXE file downloads.


Actual results:

It either tries to play the file as an MP3, or it saves the file with the .MP3 extension appended to the file if it is saved (right click Save as...).  And it is obviously a bad MP3 file.


Expected results:

It should have been handled and downloaded just like an "application/x-msdos-program" file, or something similarly content neutral.

Comment 2

[Bryan Price]

OK, THAT'S how you mark your own bug as a duplicate.  Thank you Alice0775.