Firefox fails to open html files launched from a smb path in Nautilus
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I've just upgraded from hardy to intrepid. I have a saved bookmark to a samba share which I open in Nautilus by selecting it from the Places menu in the main Ubuntu menu. Nautilus then displays the path and all its files/directories as expected. If I double click a .html file from amongst these files my running copy of Firefox opens a new blank tab and does nothing else. Firefox's location bar is blank, and no contents are displayed. If I right-click the file and select open with gvim or gedit, it opens correctly. If I copy the very same file to my desktop and double-click it there, Firefox opens it correctly.
This functionality worked with hardy but no longer works in intrepid.
It may be related that if I try and open the file in OpenOffice, I am prompted for authentication. This was also the case with hardy, but opening in Firefox always used to work without any prompt.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 3.0.3+nobinonly
Candidate: 3.0.3+nobinonly
Version table:
*** 3.0.3+nobinonly
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
My entire distribution is up to date as of Thu Oct 30 10:35:26 GMT 2008.
what URL does firefox get from nautilus?