Ubuntu
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lists the right application but failt to run it when mimetype wrongly set on server

Bug #423630 reported by Sebastien Bacher on 2009-09-03

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Chris Coulson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9.1

* set a pdf mimetype to a non existing one, like: application/x-octetstream on launchpad
* try to open it using firefox in karmic
* evince is listed, download works correctly but opening doesn't

See original description

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-09-03

Changed in xulrunner-1.9.1 (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Alexander Sack (asac)
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-09-03:

evincebug.pdf Edit (1.2 KiB, application/x-octetstream)

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2009-09-03:

at least medium as this can make users go nuts.

description:	updated
description:	updated
Changed in xulrunner-1.9.1 (Ubuntu):
importance:	Low → Medium

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2009-09-03:

confirmed that this is also an issue on firefox-3.7 daily from 2nd sep 09

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote on 2010-10-20:

I was going to say that this might be fixed in the just-released Firefox 3.6.11, thanks to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327323 (see comment 61 in that bug), but I can open the attachment in comment #1 without a problem on Ubuntu 10.10, with Firefox 3.6.10 and xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1