Closed Bug 261275 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

"Open" is disabled for .exe programs from CD-ROMs

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 204838

People

(Reporter: jmercola, Assigned: bugs)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2 We have a program installation disk that runs fine with IE. The Readme pages are html and they display okay. However, when a link on a page points to our .EXE installation file, Firefox does not give us the Run/Save/Cancel choices like IE. We do not see how to set Firefox towork corectly. Is this a bug or a setting error? I will be happy to send you a CD ROM to try. Jerry Mercola jmercola@icselect.com Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert a CD ROM 2. Select Install 488.2 Driver 3. Follow steps to get to the Install_488_2_Driver.exe linlk onthe second page. Actual Results: Got a CMD window and not the expected Save/Run/Cancel choices Expected Results: IE type Run/Save/Cancel window for installing programs Contact me for a CD-ROM Jerry Mercola 925 416 1000 x 501 jmercola@icselect.com
*** Bug 261274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
You said you got a "CMD window" when you clicked the link to the .exe. Is that a Windows 2000 command prompt? Do you still see this bug if you upgrade from Firefox 0.9.2 to Firefox 1.0PR?
Summary: Foxfire does not install .exe. programs from CD-ROMs → Firefox does not install .exe programs from CD-ROMs
From email: Hello, It is a lot better in that clicking on the HTML page link to our installation.EXE program now brings up a window that allows you to save the file to the hard disk. However it does not allow you to run the installation program. I would like to sand you our CD along with the directions on how to repeat this bug so you can fix the problem. What is your mailing address? Regards, Jerry Mercola ICS Electronics Phone +1 925-416-1000 Ext. 501 Fax: +1 925-416-0105 jmercola@icselect.com
This is done on purpose as to not allow sites to do drive by installs of software by getting the user to click open. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249604 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Not a dup of bug 249604.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Summary: Firefox does not install .exe programs from CD-ROMs → "Open" is disabled for .exe programs from CD-ROMs
I don't think Firefox should special-case CD-ROMs or other local drives, so IMO this is a dup of bug 204838. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204838 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verifying old and obvious dupes. Sorry for bugspam.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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