Difficult to select non-default application for opening files from firefox
Bug #24789 reported by
Matthew East
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #18995: Firefox should use the GNOME application chooser.
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Bug Description
If I want to open a file with an application other than the default in firefox,
I select "Other" then it takes me to the "Choose Helper Application" dialogue.
However it doesn't give me a list of applications at all, it gives me a dialogue
where I have to go and browse the filesystem and select the program manually
from (e.g.) /usr/bin/xmms.
This is a pretty difficult thing to do, and also more time-consuming that simply
clicking on a list of programs, which I am pretty sure is what used to happen in
the old days.
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| Damon W (damonw5) wrote | #1 |
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| Matthew East (mdke) wrote | #2 |
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See Bug 18995 ("Open With" Dialog not user-friendly)and Bug 13373 (Unified Mime
Type Handling) for similar bugs. Does someone want to mark this as a duplicate?
This appears to be a major goal for Dapper:
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