Comment 2 for bug 87101

Reproduced tonight. This is a "user-friendliness" issue, not a system issue.

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System specs:

WinXP pro SP1a (full patches)
Mozilla 1.5
Word (Office) 2000.

When you open an attachment in an external application, neither Mozilla nor Word
warn you that the changes are not saved to the ATTACHMENT.

Instead, Mozilla downloads the attachment to the user's designated %TEMP%
directory, and the application opens that file. When the user saves and closes,
the application correctly saves the COPY in the user's temp directory.

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Causes:

Mozilla does not open attachments by passing a link to a related file, it saves
an embedded MIME-encoded file to the temp dir. Once it saves and triggers the
3rd-party application, there is no flag sent back to mozilla to indicate any
changes.

This is not a fault of the 3rd-party application, it is opening a file as normal
and saving it to itself.

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Suggestions:

Add a popup box warning users to explicitly "Save as..." in their applications.

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Thank you.