Firefox should prefer GNOME/freedesktop mime system over mailcap.

[Juha Sahakangas]

Firefox supports GNOME mime system, but it currently only uses it as last
resort, if application isn't found in /etc/mailcap. This should be the other way
around, since Firefox is a desktop application.

Steps to reproduce: follow a link to a file of a type that firefox doesn't
handle internally and has different handler in mailcap than in gnome mime system.
Good examples are text subtypes, for example .c source code, text/x-csrc. Notice
that firefox wants to open the file with less, instead of gedit.

Comment out the three text/* entries in /etc/mailcap and perform the test again,
firefox now correctly proposes gedit for opening the file.

[Juha Sahakangas (juhaz)]

Created an attachment (id=4849)
Test case.

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

Would be great if it was fixed!

But perhaps it's a bug in mailcap also, that it says less instead of gedit?

[David Mandelberg (dseomn)]

I think the package should be changed to firefox-gnome-support because it's
gnome-related.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think the package should be changed to firefox-gnome-support because it's
> gnome-related.

No, that is a separate package (and indeed, XDG MIME is not GNOME-specific).

At any rate, this is a duplicate of #7023

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13373.