Comment #7 on issue 29354 by [email protected]: Starting earth download eats all your RAM http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29354
The problem is in our download detection logic. The page tries to download GoogleEarthLinux.bin by setting the .src of an <iframe> to the download URL. GoogleEarthLinux.bin is a 25MB shell script. The response headers look like this (in FFx): Last-Modified Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:00:00 GMT Accept-Ranges bytes Content-Type application/octet-stream Etag fe5e Vary * Date Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:34:28 GMT Server downloads Content-Range bytes 22781642-25989558/25989559 Transfer-Encoding chunked For some reason we decide that this content should be displayed inline on the page and try to render it all. This fails hardcore. Other browsers properly detect this as a download. I'm digging through the resource sniffing code to try to figure out why. I would think Content-Type application/octet-stream would be a pretty good hint that the content is not supposed to be displayed as text.. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
