On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:54:01AM -0000, stairwayoflight wrote:
> Sorry Rolf,
>
> That url appears on the following page:
>
> http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2007/12/1-click-install-ubuntu-studio-
> theme-in.html
>
> I just clicked "copy link location" and pasted it. The issue I was having is
> that I couldn't look at what was being executed before executing it. On
> gutsy if I right click the one-click-install link as it appear in the above
> mentioned page, then click "Save link as", it runs the associated ubuntu
> program which attempts to install all the different parts.
>
> I don't know if it is a security threat, but it doesn't make sense to me to
> have it run a program when I try to save any content pointed to by the link.
> My guess is they got firefox to pass the apt:// urls to ubuntu to install
> the corresponding programs, instead of downloading the content and
> displaying it. But a "Save link As" will normally cause the browser to
> follow the link, and shoot the content to disk. I suppose when the browser
> goes to download the content in the first part of a "Save link As"
> operation, the download function defaults to invoking ubuntu to install the
> stuff instead.
>
> Whether or not I have a good grasp of whats happening, I don't believe this
> should be the default behavior.
can anyone reproduce this and provide a clear step-by-step instruction
on how to reproduce?
status incomplete
- Alexander
** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Incomplete
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Right click, "Save As" in firefox runs script instead of saving it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187736
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