gedit freezes when opening a binary file

I found a way to freeze gedit. Sorry if this is a duplicate.

- Go to http://html5boilerplate.com/
- Download the stripped boilerplate
- For some reason gedit is the default application for this file, which in reality seems to be a zip.
- Gedit window opens, but is empty and does not close with close button.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gedit 3.2.3-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 21 15:53:12 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (95 days ago)