Closed Bug 24341 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Opening unknown file type twice crashes browser

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P1)

x86
Windows NT
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: S.D.deHoog, Assigned: law)

Details

(Keywords: crash)

When opening a file with an unknown file type twice, the browser crashes. This only happens when using the newly created window to open a file the second time. (closing it and opening from the first window works fine). I've only tested this on local files with several unknown extensions. The obvious solution to me would seem to be to not open a new browserwindow, when trying to view an unknown filetype.
Severity: normal → critical
Adding "crash" keyword to all known open crasher bugs.
Keywords: crash
Do you mean you click on a local file with an unknown file type, get the open dialog box then click cancel. And do this twice?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23195 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Marking Verified as a dup.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Maybe my description wasn't clear enough, so here goes: 1) I open a local file with an unknown extension through the file, open file menu. 2) I click cancel on the error dialog, a new blank window shows up. 3) I repeat step 1 in the new window. 4) I repeat step 2 in the new window. And that causes it to crash, doing the same but in the same (first) window doesn't crash it. Maybe it's just me, but to me this seems different from what happens with bug 23195.
yes, this could be a different bug, or the same symptom of a similar bugs. paulmac, can you have one of your folks try a reproduce. And this may be a dup.
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Component: Browser-General → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Assignee: nobody → hyatt
Status: REOPENED → NEW
QA Contact: nobody → paulmac
Updating QA Contact.
Shrirang, could you take a look at this. Also, looks like xpapps bug, not xptoolkit.
Assignee: hyatt → don
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees → XPApps
QA Contact: paulmac → shrir
Bill, don't we (or maybe someone on Necko) already have a bug on this?
Assignee: don → law
Keywords: beta1
Priority: P3 → P1
Target Milestone: M14
I cannot reproduce the problem because cancelling the "unknown content" dialog no longer creates the second window. I suspect that behavior was due to a previous bug that has since been fixed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
FYI: the second window does open with build 2000-02-01-08 on WinNT, but Mozilla no longer crashes. I don't if this is really a bug, but the newly created window shows the unrecognized file (or rather the full URI) in the location bar.
Verified on build 2000020708. Marking as such.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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