Comment 15 for bug 196202

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote : Re: [Bug 196202] Re: Places menu FTP servers open in firefox-3.0 instead of nautilus

brettalton wrote:
>> you mean that firefox is writting this gconf value? that's broken behaviour and a bug
>>
> Yes Sabastian, you are correct. We just need to find out where/when/why Firefox does this.
>
> My theory is that it occurs when you set 'Firefox' as the default 'Web
> Browser' (which FTP could be umbrella-ed under) in "System > Preferences
>
>> Preferred Applications". By default in Hardy Heron, Firefox is not
>>
> selected (I don't think).
>
>
Alexander can you please take a look at this bug when you get time
because i thought default browser opening an FTP site was normal not so
much a bug. Maybe we can add an update-alternative for FTP? <what app
should open it> this way people that use browser for FTP will still be
able to use them.

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    John Vivirito

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