"open with ..." should suggest alternative helper based on mime-type

[Alexander Sack]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

current firefox only support opening with the defaulta application. Allowing the user to choose between all helper apps would improve the usability alot. A patch against an old branch is available in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370380

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

the patch in bugzilla needs to be updated for trunk.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

the patch in bugzilla touches browser (firefox-3.0) and toolkit + uriloader component (xulrunner-1.9). Added xulrunner-1.9 target accordingly.

[spandanj (spandanj)]

it should offer a list of applications instead of nautilus File browser which is useless.

when can we expect this? what target release?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:09:13AM -0000, spandanj wrote:
> it should offer a list of applications instead of nautilus File browser
> which is useless.
>
> when can we expect this? what target release?

no real target set yet. When you have a patch now, we can probably get
this in for ffox 3.1 still ... but time is running low.

 - Alexander

[spandanj (spandanj)]

ok, thanks, Alexander.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 18995, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.