"open with" cannot define behaviour depending on extension
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Invalid
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High
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox
1. Open a *.diff file
2. A dialog appears that says it is a "BIN file". Odd but MIME info or other magical things may not be working. Nonetheless, file extension is "diff".
3. Options are: 1) Open with less (default) 2) Save to disc. The option "Do this automatically for files like this from now on" is locked on disabled.
What I would expect:
1. Never, never, never, never offer to open anything with "less". This is so useless, that it makes me cry.
2. Offer the option "Do this automatically for files like this from now on", either based on the MIME type or, if that fails, on the extension.
3. Extra points if FF is able to recognize the extension and don't say that this is a BIN file.
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
I forgot to say: I've tried with Mozilla (the Debian package too), which also
asks me if I want to display the file with "less", but it does not hang (it
doesn't display the file either in any way).