91616 - Opening tiff images starts opening news windows until stopped

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88692

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Description

[bugs]

I've found an article ( http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/bnlpr071801.htm )
linked from Slashdot, where clicking on the "Click to enlarge" links with middle
button or selecting Open Link in New Window from the popup menu opens up a new
window and starts getting the image as expected. But instead of displaying it or
asking what action should Mozilla do, it pops up another full browser window,
which pops up another, and so on until I close them.

I think it should replicate the behavior of the left-click, with the only
difference of one additional browser window. 

It could be the same problem with mime types that mozilla doesn't handle
internally, and on all platforms.

Found on: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

-> imglib

Its a tiff, which we don't handle.
From previous times this has happened, something
(http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/uriloader/exthandler/nsExternalHelperAppService.cpp#113,
perhaps?) is claming that we know how to handle tiff, but its not being
registered in the category manager. Or the other way arround. Or something like
that...

Comment 2

[kmike]

dupe of bug 80931?

Comment 3

[bugs]

Yes, but left clicking the links in bug 80931 works correctly, only middle
clicking/opening link in new window starts opening new windows. 

Comment 4

[Stuart Parmenter]

dup of bug 88692

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88692 ***