Issue 518170 in chromium: jnlp files are now showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out

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Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: Cr-UI Pri-2 Via-Wizard Type-Bug OS-Windows

New issue 518170 by bsm...@varrow.com: jnlp files are now showing with "
Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.130 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Access any JNLP file
2. Chrome downloads JNLP file as if any other resource
3. Chrome does not start Java
4. User must click on JNLP file to start Java and associated app

What is the expected behavior?
jnlp files should open automatically after choosing "Always open files of
this type"

What went wrong?
I was previously able to skip the "This type of file can harm your
computer" message after selecting the "Always open files of this type".

After the update on or around July 21, 2015 that did not work anymore.

Did this work before? Yes The previous version, before July 21, 2015

Chrome version: 44.0.2403.130 Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 18.0 r0

Attachments:
2015-08-08 07_19_40-Chrome1.png 8.8 KB
2015-08-08 08_10_23-Chrome2.png 8.2 KB

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Updates:
Cc: ssamano...@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback

Comment #1 on issue 518170 by ssamano...@chromium.org: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

bsmith@Could you please provide sample JNLP file for further triage.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 518170 by rad...@e-spirit.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

we also need this function back! we often need to use .jnlp-files....

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 518170 by ddis...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

OK, so it is not just me. I am seeing the same lack of automatic behavior
as well. This started about 2-3 weeks ago , or so .

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #5 on issue 518170 by soccerdu...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Yeah. Really hoping they can fix this or make it an optional flag.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 518170 by bsm...@varrow.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Having the same problem with UCS manager and Unisphere (EMC). Also with a
third party we use for RDP sessions.

Using Java 7.65, 32bit. It doesn't matter what version of Java and a
reinstall hasn't helped.

This happens in both Window 8.1 and 10.

Depending on Cisco and EMC we're limited with what version of Java will run
UCS Manager or Unisphere.

Hope that info helps ssamano!


Attachments:
launch-ssh (3).jnlp 4.1 KB

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Comment #8 on issue 518170 by asvet...@csas.cz: jnlp files are now showing

with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Hi this is a big issue in our company. Is it a bug or wanted "feature"?
Thanks

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #9 on issue 518170 by meyap...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

previously i did not observe the "Save As" dialog box for downloading and
opening JNLP files. chrome used to auto download JNLP files without the
save as dialog.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #10 on issue 518170 by jeffrey....@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

This is quite problematic, I hope this is a bug to be fixed.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #12 on issue 518170 by ipar...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Yes, a flag to let the user choose what they want would be a great option.
I searched for it but i didn't found anything.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #13 on issue 518170 by chris.h...@hcs.us.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

This problem seems to get worse now that all jnlps are considered unsafe
(Keep/Discard prompt) and the AlwaysOpen option is disabled. uuhg. So
here is a workaround I wrote:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/33294650/1524130

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Comment #15 on issue 518170 by goo...@sven-haag.de: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

A site whitelist should be provided to allow auto start.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Assigned
Owner: asa...@chromium.org
Cc: a...@chromium.org
Labels: -Cr-UI -OS-Windows -Needs-Feedback Cr-UI-Browser-Downloads OS-All
M-49

Comment #16 on issue 518170 by a...@chromium.org: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Seeing the similar behavior on the latest canary(49.0.2593.0) on Windows-7,
Mac OS 10.10.5 & Linux Ubuntu 14.04.

Assigning to asanka@ for more inputs and related work on Issue 461858.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #17 on issue 518170 by casp...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

It would be nice if browser vendors stop deciding for users what is or is
not safe. Users should ALWAYS have a choice as to whether or not they want
to open or save something. If a user is so inexperienced that they
foolishly decide to open something they should not have, that becomes their
problem. Hopefully they have a good virus scanner installed. In the case
of jnlp, which is an application, there should be an option to ALWAYS open
if that's what the user wants.

So in the latest production version (as of today), 47.0.2526.106m this bad
behavior continues to reproduce. Is Google considering this a bug or
expected behavior???

If this is expected behavior, I would like to know how to formally submit
an enhancement request to get this behavior changes ASAP.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #18 on issue 518170 by Martin0...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Same behavior with the Avocent UMG 4000 IP KVM software that I have to
click about 70 times per day, It forces me to select "Keep Malware" so I
can download and run my Enterprise application manually instead of having
it automatically open like before.

On an air-gapped system with no internet connectivity at all. I wish the
developers would get their head around the fact that not everyone needs
protection from hack.com and much as they need to be able to use the
software on their Intranet.

You should never remove the users ability to make the software do what they
need - I am in the best position to decide what my security posture looks
like and what functionality I need. Maybe you should just fork the project
for Enterprise users and give us more granular options for our individual
needs.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #19 on issue 518170 by reich.ma...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

We also need to have the possibility to autostart JNLP files! FireFox and
IE have no problem with this :-(

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #20 on issue 518170 by sergio.t...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Senza il supporto NPAPI, le applet java possono essere eseguite solo
attraverso JNLP: senza la possibilità per l'utente di scegliere l'apertura
automatica di tali files, equivale ad una rinuncia totale ad utilizzare
soluzioni Java sul web!

Propongo anche io almeno una whitelist che permetta l'autostart!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #21 on issue 518170 by quelr...@gmail.com: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

WTF, Google?!
Impossible to use Chrome in business environment anymore as Java is still
used everywhere! jnlp files is officially supported way of starting Java
apps, so why users must approve it every time?!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #22 on issue 518170 by pacu...@tsc.k12.in.us: jnlp files are now

showing with " Always Open Files of This Type" grayed out
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=518170

Since javaws already has a "Do you really want to run this" dialog, with
code-signing support so the user can verify the creator of the program
before running it, I can't imagine what threat scenario Google is thinking
of in which their devoid-of-useful-information "harm your computer" warning
is actually helping anybody.