Comment 13 for bug 196202

Yes, I want Nautilus to just open FTP links.

The gconf keys I mentioned above appeared at some point, and they were causing the unexpected behaviour. I am suggesting that some script included in the Firefox *packages*, not Firefox itself, caused those keys to be inserted. Again, I don't know enough about packaging to fix this myself, but I *do* know that packages include files besides the ones that are installed; that some of these files are scripts; and that those scripts are run when a package is installed or removed.

As you say, Firefox, the browser, is "doing what it is expected to do" (when assigned as FTP URL handler). firefox-3.0, the package, version 3.0~b3~cvs20080101t1000+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~gutsy1, is NOT.