Closed Bug 214157 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

infinite loop and crash when asigning unknown file to mozilla

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 167320

People

(Reporter: dominee, Assigned: law)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 when opening an file with unknown extension , windws asks for a program to asign this file extension to, if mozilla is choosen an infinite loop starts because mozilla is trying to open an another instance to handle this file, wich is trying to open it again , and so on.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a file wih an non asociated extension in mozilla 2. assign mozilla to permanently open this filetype 3. clik OK Actual Results: hundreds of new mozilla windows were started Expected Results: open the file in the window where the file was opend and not open an another window
Dupe: Bug 167320 Eternal loop when associating mozilla.exe with file type Bug 208636 Setting mozilla itself as helper application lead to looping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167320 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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