Closed Bug 217789 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

need an option to run a program directly when it's location is a local drive

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

x86
All
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59932

People

(Reporter: vdbrink, Assigned: law)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Whenever I click on a link to an executable file, the dialog box that pops up gives me the option of saving the file to disk, but not to run it from its current location. This isn't a problem in itself, but when the link points to an executable on a local drive, for example, a CD rom disk, it should give me the option to run it directly from the CD. I find this particularly annoying when I get cover CDs from various computer magazines that have links to installation programs all through it. I don't want to save the installation program to the hard disk, I just want to run it. Instead, I have to find the file myself and run it using a file manager, which is annoying. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a HTML file with a link to a .exe file in it (which should be a local file). 2. open it in mozilla (or firebird) 3. click on the link. Actual Results: It gives me the "option" of saving the file, even when it's already on this computer. Expected Results: Given me the option to just run it directly Both mozilla and firebird do this, the bug should be fixed for both of them. There was no crash, just annoyance.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59932 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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