REGRESSION: Firefox does not process some downloads properly

[Luke Faraone]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Try to download http://noc.cluenet.org/distconf/heimdal/krb5.conf.sh , and it will display a blank list of applications it can use to open it.

What should happen is gedit should be listed, or whatever editor exists for text. This works on the 3.0a8 build in the gutsy repos.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 18 19:28:28 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[Chris Chan (crazytales)]

It's a regression. I have gutsy and the version of Fx3 in its repositories is 3.0a8... works fine for me. The download box offers me the choices of less and kate.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

I cam confirm that the open box is blank, but is this the fault of firefox or nautilus? I think file type to application linking affects more than firefox.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

Saving the shell script and right clicking on it gives me the option of opening it in gedit.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

new ->confirmed

Can reproduce here on hardy with ff3b5.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest version of Firefox 3.0? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!