Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #196202
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 196202

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Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Confirmed (and marking as so). I was about to submit a duplicate until I found this.

$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp
 needs_terminal = false
 command = /usr/bin/firefox %s
 enabled = true

Maybe this occurs after 'Preferred Applications > Internet > Web Browser' is set to Firefox? Did anyone else do this, even unknowingly? If so, Firefox should not be set for FTP accounts, or there should be a separate section for FTP under 'Preferred Applications > Internet'. My suggestion, anyway.

Workaround: Go to 'Places > Home Folder', select 'Bookmarks' in Nautilus and select your FTP bookmark.

Similar bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/12183, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/24085

They were closed because they were marked as 'user preferences changed', however, I never changed Firefox to handle my FTP accounts or, if I did, as I stated above, I never meant to.