Comment 26 for bug 196202

I agree with Brett. I never got a dialog either. Steps to reproduce:

1. Fresh install of hardy in my case
2. Set up an ftp site using Places > Connect to Server
3. Upgrade to Firefox 3.0 from beta
4. Observe no dialog.
5. Open up the FTP site that was set up in step 2. It opens in Firefox

This bug shouldn't be invalid unless you can complete the steps above without seeing the dialog or you can complete the steps without Firefox stealing the default.

On a side note, Firefox stealing the default for FTP, even if it asks if it wants to be the default browser, is confusing behavior when all you're doing is an upgrade through the update manager. I would never want firefox to be the default FTP handler, but I would definitely upgrade my browser if prompted to, and when asked if it should be default, I would even answer yes. Once it becomes the default FTP handler, there's no way to get it back to nautilus except through gconf. That is not good at all.