clicking on a link to a document does not open it

[Jerome Haltom]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

Epiphany has an option to automatically download and open files. This option has lost effect in at least 2.21.4-0ubuntu3. Files silently go to the Downloads folder now.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Subscribing Alexander who did the change to use xulrunner

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Problem still present on 2.21.92.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is fixed upstream now

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

Problem stil present on 2.22.1.1

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

I'm working up a backport fix for inclusion, will post a debdiff ASAP.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Hope this helps....

it "backports" Christian Persch's fixes from SVN:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/epiphany?limit_changes=100&view=revision&revision=8203
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/epiphany?limit_changes=100&view=revision&revision=8204
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/epiphany?limit_changes=100&view=revision&revision=8205
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/epiphany?limit_changes=100&view=revision&revision=8206

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

It turns out that this upstream fix still causes a confirmation dialog to be presented rather than auto-downloading.

I found that adding the following additional diff helps:

--- epiphany-browser-2.22.1.1.orig/embed/mozilla/ContentHandler.cpp»2008-04-16 19:24:54.000000000 +0100
+++ epiphany-browser-2.22.1.1/embed/mozilla/ContentHandler.cpp»·2008-04-16 19:28:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -394,7 +402,7 @@
                 mAction = auto_downloads ? CONTENT_ACTION_DOWNLOAD : CONTENT_ACTION_NONE;
                 MIMEConfirmAction ();
         }
- else if (mAction == CONTENT_ACTION_OPEN_TMP)
+ else if (mAction == CONTENT_ACTION_OPEN_TMP && !auto_downloads)
         {
                 MIMEConfirmAction ();
         }

I've posted this on the upstream bug report to see if I'm along the right lines, or if there was just some problem with my "backported" fix.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is available in intrepid