Firefox does not open .PNG files anymore

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 19:41:53 UTC 2009


Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Sáb 14 Fev 2009, Mikkel L. Ellertson escreveu:
>   
>> Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm seeing this in KDE's bugzilla web site (among others), which I
>>> have always used without this problem. And Firefox correctly
>>> identify the file as "PNG image" in the open file dialog. It seems
>>> this is not the cause of the problem. Also, the problem is just
>>> with PNG files, but not other types of image files.
>>>       
>> Dumb question - is it only .png files, or all images?
>>     
>
> Only .png files. I can open .jpg files in the browser window without 
> problems.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcelo
>   


Check out https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165656
It has both png and jpeg attachments - and both download instead of just
opening. Again, this is expected behavior since the website tells the
browser to download both.
If someone posted a URL to a jpg or png file (not attachment), it would
open in the browser.






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