Steve Meredith (gone) Reporter
	Description • 22 years ago

MIME, File association problem. 

If you click on a binary file with no existing file association for that type,
you are prompted for what to do with this kind of file: launch or save. If you
choose launch, select an application, and uncheck the box that says, "Always ask
before opening this type of file" you would expect that type of file to always
open whenever you click on it in the future. This doesn't work. It remembers
your choice as "always save" and a new pref shows up like: 

user_pref("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application%2Fx-dvi");

Also, there's no way to change this from the UI. Once you choose, that's it.

Also, you'd expect for this file type to show up under "helper apps" in the
preferences, but it doesn't.

	Nicholas Allen
	Comment 1 • 22 years ago

WFM Win2k 0826

Choosing an application and unchecking "Always ask" box created a user pref 
with choice "open file".  Future invocations of Mozilla opened file without 
prompting.  Using Reset in prefs UI cleared choice.  Future invocations of 
Mozilla prompted when downloading file.

	Steve Meredith (gone) Reporter
	Comment 2 • 22 years ago

I've seen this on several different windows machines now. This seems like a very
fundamental feature that is broken.

	Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)
	Comment 3 • 22 years ago

bz, this was fixed with the helper app rewrite, right?

	Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]
	Comment 4 • 22 years ago

Yep, bug 86640 fixed exactly this problem.

	Chris Petersen
	Comment 5 • 22 years ago

Verified with the OS X Mach-O 2003-03-13-03 trunk and Win32 2003-03-13-04 trunk.