Firefox Downloads window opens doc files in Wine instead of OpenOffice

[Hephaestus Malleus]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Firefox 3.5 Bug:
After a user downloads a .doc file, if the user goes to Firefox's Downloads window and does a right-click -> Open on the .doc file, for some reason this invokes Wine and then Wine returns a "There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file." error. OpenOffice is never invoked.

What should have happened:
When a user right clicks a .doc file in the Downloads window, it should open the document up in OpenOffice.

What happened instead:
When a user right clicks a .doc file, for some reason it invokes Wine and then Wine returns a "There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file. error.

I went to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications in Firefox and it says that the default program for .doc files is OpenOffice, yet for some reason this is not the case with the Downloads window.

I have checked the Wine installation and it is fine. Is there any way to fix this Downloads window bug?

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. If you open the file from the folder you downloaded it into, what program does it load in?

[Hephaestus Malleus (hephaestus-malleus)]

Micah,

Is there a way to specify which program the Downloads window itself will use? I have noticed that when I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, there is no way for the user to delete an application in the list if there is a problem. I.e., if Firefox says a certain application is (Default) there is no way to change it. Even if a user selects another application, Firefox will still say the original program is "(Default)" and will always want to use that app. Firefox also wants to over-ride Nautilus/Gnome default apps for some reason.

Is there another way a user can manually edit the Applications used by Firefox? Does Firefox v3.5 use a different list for the Applications window then it does for the Downloads window itself?

I think it would be nice if future versions of Firefox added more functionality to the Applications window GUI, so a user can delete an app on there or set another app as "(Default)" manually.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you please try the same with a new user? you probably need to remove your firefox profile to fix that.

[Skippy le Grand Gourou (lecotegougdelaforce)]

This painful bug is not Ubuntu-related, see for instance https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490431

Please report upstream.