Firefox fails to open html files launched from a smb path in Nautilus

[Max]

I've just upgraded from hardy to intrepid. I have a saved bookmark to a samba share which I open in Nautilus by selecting it from the Places menu in the main Ubuntu menu. Nautilus then displays the path and all its files/directories as expected. If I double click a .html file from amongst these files my running copy of Firefox opens a new blank tab and does nothing else. Firefox's location bar is blank, and no contents are displayed. If I right-click the file and select open with gvim or gedit, it opens correctly. If I copy the very same file to my desktop and double-click it there, Firefox opens it correctly.

This functionality worked with hardy but no longer works in intrepid.

It may be related that if I try and open the file in OpenOffice, I am prompted for authentication. This was also the case with hardy, but opening in Firefox always used to work without any prompt.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My entire distribution is up to date as of Thu Oct 30 10:35:26 GMT 2008.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

what URL does firefox get from nautilus?

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

dupe of bug 281265