Comment 3 for bug 405498

Thanks for the repro steps. I still do not get the error message, but I do see the "Dismiss this startup screen [ ] Never show it again." text at the end of the *GNU Emacs* buffer. (For testing, I picked the application/zip attachment from http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/viewtest.htm and selected "Open with > /usr/bin/emacs" in the Download dialog in Firefox.)

Is this somehow specific to KDE? Does it matter whether you use the keyboard or the mouse to select the "Dismiss this startup screen" link? Do you have anything in your .emacs file which could be causing this? (Can you create a shell script which runs emacs -q, and select that as the application to open the file with? That would cause it to not read your .emacs file.)

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/emacs -q "$@"

In fact, the error message sort of suggests that you might have an error in your .emacs file. If it doesn't contain anything sensitive, do you think you could attach it here?

Note that the initialization file could have a different location, depending on your setup etc. In emacs22 the file can also be ~/.emacs.d/init.el; see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Init-File.html for the full scoop.

Leaving this bug report as "Status: Incomplete" still.