firefox shouldnt suggest to open .exe files with wine (virus)
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Bugzilla |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Mozilla Firefox |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I understand Ubuntu's need to be as easy as it gets and help the end user, but it this REALLY necessary? Associating wine programs so that firefox tries to run executables from the internet via wine? In my experience, every time I am asked to run a windows executable via firefox, it's a virus.
It might be more than enough to let the user download the executable and, if he is inclined to, run it via wine.
I'd recommend take off all these entries from /etc/mailcap so that firefox does not try to run windows programs/virii:
[patola@ubuntola patola]% grep wine /etc/mailcap
application/
application/
application/exe; /usr/bin/wine '%s'; description=Windows Executable
application/x-exe; /usr/bin/wine '%s'; description=Windows Executable
application/
vms/exe; /usr/bin/wine '%s'; description=Windows Executable
application/
application/
application/
application/x-msi; /usr/bin/wine '%s'; description=Windows Installer archive
Changed in bugzilla: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in bugzilla: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Changed in bugzilla: | |
status: | Won't Fix → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Changed in bugzilla: | |
importance: | Unknown → Undecided |
status: | Confirmed → New |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
i am not sure how bad virusses are to run in wine, but i agree this isnt really good. the problem is not the mime mapping because users should still be open .exe files by clicking on them in wine.
However, firefox has tweaks for exectuables on windows to not suggest "open with ..." at all for them (just download). I think we should get that behaviour for linux as well.