88439 - after completing helper app info, the helper app dialog goes away

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found while testing fixes for bug 88066 [see test (9) under the win98 results 
there]. saw this using 2001.06.29.06-trunk comm bits on win98. i don't recall 
seeing this on mac or linux, but will double check.

1. go click on a file for which there is no system-defined helper app *and* no 
helper app defined within mozilla/n6.x. eg, i clicked a .bz2 file [mozilla 
source file from the nightly ftp site].
2. the resulting helper app dialog should have "save to disk" selected, and "<no 
application specified>" next to the "open" radio button. click the "advanced" 
button.
3. in the resulting New Type dialog, enter a description and an application to 
launch the file [i used WinZip for the .bz2].
4. click OK in the New Type dialog.

expected: should be returned to the helper app dialog. but, if not that, then 
should start transferring the file [ie, get the download progress dialog] to 
open it up [although that might be presumptuous?].

actual result: the helper app dialog goes away.

workaround: need to click the .bz2 link to bring it up again [it'll have the 
new, correct settings, though].

Comment 1

[Francisco León]

Currently on linux i just get a prompt to where to save the file. Not even the
"no app" dialog. Perhaps the linux version has .bz2 built in because it's common
in linux systems?
Did see the no app dialog when downloading some .rpm files.
Build 2001062814

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

sairuh, are you sure the helper app dialog went away? I wasn't able to reproduce
that behavior. It does "look" like it went away because the underlying browser
window gets focus. But the dialog is still there and I can toggle through the
list of open mozilla windows until the dialog comes back to the front. 

Is that what you are seeing or is the dialog really going away for you? I
couldn't trick it into doing that. 

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mscott, you're right: the dialog must've been underneath the other windows.

i tried this again, and interestingly the helper app dialog stayed on top. ah 
well!

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy. sorry about the noise.