Bug#523993: epiphany-browser: Cancel button does nothing in dialog to choose app for text/x-patch downloads

[Neil Williams]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:35:50 +0200
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> Le mardi 14 avril 2009 à 08:08 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit :
> > I attempted to view the patch attachment which the BTS claims as
> > text/x-patch.
> > 
> > Epiphany raised a dialog claiming it did not know how to open the file
> > although it didn't seem to have problems opening similar files before.
> > 
> > You have chosen to open       which is a:     form:    
> > 
> > There is a horizontal bar below the "Do this automatically" widget that
> > is too narrow to show any text but shows "Other" if clicked (although
> > nothing else happens) and the Cancel button does nothing at all.
> 
> This looks like the return of #494058, since this window is supposedly
> for firefox, not for epiphany.
> 
> Does restarting epiphany help?

Umm, no. Restarting epiphany has now left me with a browser that cannot
connect to any website, despite iceweasel, lynx and other browsers
being able to connect perfectly.

Prior to restarting, epiphany refused to close the remaining open tabs
- I suspect I left that particular instance of epiphany running for too
long anyway (about 7 windows open, 6 tabs each - open for about 2
weeks).

The restarted epiphany cannot even communicate with www.google.com at
the moment. :-(

I'd rather not have to logout/login just right now, but I should be
able to do that later today.

Update: killing the stalled epiphany and restarting again led to the
Recover|Don't recover dialog, chose don't recover and now epiphany
seems to be able to connect again.

Tested again with the problem bug report and the attachment opened in a
text editor without showing the dialog.

Hmmm. Now I need to find an attachment that epiphany *doesn't*
recognise in it's shiny, restarted, form to see if the Cancel button
fails again.

The bug report wasn't for the problems that caused the dialog to
appear, it was because the Cancel button failed to do anything.

Testing with sqlite database files and various .bin attachments
previously downloaded, I don't get a dialog at all - epiphany just
ignores the file. (Checking the Download directory, it is actually
downloading them but the test files were on localhost and small, so the
download was v.fast and the notification disappeared too quickly.)

So I'm not sure what to do with this one now, the most I can say is
that I can't find an attachment that raises the dialog to see if the
Cancel button works. Whether you prefer to close the bug or mark it
unreproducible is up to you. If have any more tests you would like me to
do, let me know.

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Neil Williams
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