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 I accidently tried to open a .zip extension file with Mozilla Firebird and then all of a sudden new browser windows started to open. The process continued till the computer ran out of memory. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to a website where you can download a .zip file 2.Instead of saving the zip file, open it using Mozilla Firebird 3. Actual Results: Infinite # of browser windows started to open Expected Results: It should have told me that it cannot open that kind of file extenstsion

Is this a problem with a _recent_ build? 1.5a is very very old.

Build 2003100804 Works perfectly here. Please try a newer build

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/jsd-src-20000113.zip When I clicked on the link above, just 223 kb, a downloadbox opened: The file ... is of type application/zip, and Mozilla Firebird does not know how to handle this filetype. Why do you assume, it can handle it, if you choose Open it with: and set the path to the application to Firebird? If FB would know which application can handle it, it would have used it without asking. FB can´t know which application can´t handle it, therefore it is up to you which application you suggest. Maybe this box should check that Firebird isn´t selected, but that doesn´t prevent selecting other invalid apps. imho this bug is invalid, as Firebird did tell you it can´t handle it. If you override this, it´s your decision which is respected.

Seen loop with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031002 Firebird/0.7+ FB told me it is a PowerArchiver zip file, so it gave me a hint which application to use, but didn´t insert this app automatically. (If I click on a zip-file, PowerArchiver opens.) The new downloadbox doesn´t tell that Firebird can´t handle this type of file. Open with: is selected, and the box for the application file path is empty. If I don´t change this, and click ok, PowerArchiver opens the file. If I select Other, the Choose Download Application Path filepicker box opens. I selected Firebird, Firebird tried, failed, and presented me the same box again, for another choice. But when I checked the checkbox: Do this automatically for files like this from now on Firebird 0.7 got into an endless loop, creating new windows. I had to stop this with the taskmanager, and had to reset this option in the Tools->Options->Downloads->Filetypes menu. So in 0.6.1 you have been warned, in 0.7 you run into this bug if you really try hard. I didn´t look for dupes, or open bugs concerning my suggestions, or check a current nightly. I think there should be some Help on this box, that the default application would be used, maybe instead of presenting an empty file path put the word default into it, if you can´t show the application name in this field. There should be a warning not to use Firebird as this box opens exactly for the reason that Firebird can´t handle it, at least don´t check the 'automatically' checkbox.

If this is a browser bug, it is dupe Bug 167320 Eternal loop when associating mozilla.exe with file type -> Product: Firebird -> Component: Downloading

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167320 ***

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