Public bug reported: When I click on a link to a PDF file, the file downloads but a warning appears, saying "this type of file may harm your computer" and asking whether I want to keep it or remove it. If I hit "keep", which I basically always want to do since I clicked on the link in the first place, the PDF is then automatically opened in evince.
What should happen: either no warning at all under these circumstances, or one warning only. Instead, even if I click the same link to the same PDF file again, I get the warning again. Upstream claims to have fixed this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=65895 In particular, they do not want to remove the warning entirely, because PDF vulnerabilities do occur, but they claim that if (a) the user has set PDFs to auto-open and (b) the user has already accepted a PDF from the given site, then the warning will not reoccur. For me, it reoccurs every time, that is, I do not see the behaviour upstream claims. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: chromium-browser 18.0.1025.151~r130497-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.31-lowlatency 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jun 7 04:53:40 2012 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome-shell XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome-shell:/usr/share/ubuntustudio-menu/:/etc/xdg/ XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome-shell:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ EcryptfsInUse: Yes Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (40 days ago) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" ** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009902 Title: auto-open pdf files is impossible because of security warnings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1009902/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
