It happens pretty much for every single download you can come across when in 
torbrowser




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 From: k e bera <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] 'external application is needed'
 
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:56:31 -0800 (PST)
Mersenne Tee <[email protected]> wrote:

> When you download something say for example tor and you get the pop up 
> message "external application is needed to handle" etc etc if you click the 
> 'launch application' button does that mean you may lose tor protection and 
> thus downloading with tor isn't safe?

This is some kind of bug in TorBrowser/TorButton/Firefox.  It will actually 
just download (using your existing Firefox-Tor connection) and save the file 
when you click "launch application".

If you then launch an application to view the saved file, of course that 
application is not necessarily guaranteed to be using Tor for any internet 
access, unless you are running something like Tails.
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