Firefox should use the GNOME application chooser
Bug #18995 reported by
Damon W
This bug affects 119 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mozilla Firefox |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When choosing to open a file in Firefox, an "Open With" dialog appears.
You can choose to save the file or open it with a program from the list.
However, if the desired program to open the file with is NOT listed, the user
must navigate the filesystem to /usr/bin (or wherever) and select the
appropriate program.
A more user-friendly way would be to list all of the known programs installed
that are available to open files with, and then have an "Other..." or
"Advanced..." button for the user who would rather navigate the filesystem.
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | ijackson → nobody |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → round-5 |
affects: | hundredpapercuts → null |
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
tags: | added: patch-forwarded-upstream |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | null |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → quantal-9-internet |
no longer affects: | firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → papercuts-s-gtk |
no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
affects: | mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) → thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- [MASTER] "Open With" dialog not user-friendly + Firefox should use the GNOME application chooser |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in iceweasel (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | iceweasel (Debian) |
This looks to be upstream:
https:/ /bugzilla. mozilla. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=56662