* Sebastien Blondeel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 05:48:41PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > When a friend sends over my mail.ru account a Microsoft Word file,
> > > clicking on it to choose whether to Open it with... or Save it on the
> > > disk does not work: the button "OK" is deactivated no matter what I do
> > > or choose. I had to right-click on the link to choose what to do with it
> > > (save it locally then go and use OpenOffice on it).
> > 
> > Can you give me a reproduction recipe? 

Ok, I haven't investigated this because it's too daunting a
reproduction recipe. If it only affects Elena's configuration it may
just be a broken configuration. 

> It was not easy to reproduce. Apparently it depends on my user Elena's
> Mozilla/Firefox configuration, and maybe on the mail.ru website. Good
> luck finding the minimal conditions to reproduce it!
> 
> Maybe we should start a new configuration from fresh, but in any case it
> is a bug and it should be nailed down.
> 
> To reproduce the bug please do as follows.
> Note: this procedure contains private information (e-mail addresses),
> please keep them to yourself (e.g. don't upload them as is to the BTS
> where they can be crawled or whatever).
> 
> Use a new user's account.
> Unpack in his $HOME, the following tarball:
> http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~blondeel/eric/firefox.tar.bz2
> Note: I removed Cache files, bookmark files, cookie files, download
> files, preference files... but in case I forgot something personal or
> fishy, tell me.
> 
> Fire up Firefox (current Debian testing version).
> 
> Go to www.mail.ru.
> 
> I opened up an account for you at mail.ru to show you the problem.
> 
> You need to read a little of Cyrillic. In what follows I use what I
> believe to be a close enough standard transliteration to latin alphabet
> (English standard).
> 
> The "links" web browser translates Cyrillic pages into this stuff when
> they have the right content type and you have no locales. 
> Eg: type 
> links http://www.mail.ru
> 
> The list is
> http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/sgman/trrus.html
> but maybe I deviated from it
> 
> If that is not enough, try translating the stuff copy-pasting it to 
> http://www.translate.ru/text.asp?lang=ru
> then select in the menu the second entry
> (russko-angliski) then click on the red button
> 
> Just in case the login is: Aek8ieyo
> The password is:           haer4Zax
> 
> Click on the grey button (Vojti).
> 
> Click on Vkhodyashche (the first line, with two messages in the box)
> 
> Click on "Fw: ponedelnik"
> 
> Click on "Doc13.doc"
> 
> You should observe stuff like
> http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~blondeel/eric/Screenshot1.png
> http://quatramaran.ens.fr/~blondeel/eric/Screenshot2.png
> 
> Confirm me you can reproduce this, it was hard enough for me to do that
> without compromising too much of Elena's configuration and privacy. Tell
> me too I may delete the quatramaran/eric files.
> 
> In case you need to open a new account on mail.ru (I don't and won't use
> this one), this is how to do it (I use "pwgen" to find random strings):
> 
> -=-=-=
> 
> www.mail.ru
> 
> -> Registratsiya v potshte
> 
> E-mail Aek8ieyo
> 
> Parol' == password
>   haer4Zax
>   haer4Zax
> 
> Vuyberite vopros -> 2nd one (Devitsh'ya...)
> 
> Otvet... -> tatata
> 
> Imya -> Aleksandr
> 
> Familia -> Popov
> 
> Vash ... -> 1 Yanvar' 1980
> 
> Vash pol -> Mouj...
> 
> (Type the picture)
> 
> Zaregi...
> 
> => [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> -> Vkhodyashchie (mailbox)
> 
> Vojti = confirm login
> 
> -> Message from Elena (ponedelnik)
> 
> -=-=-=

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