firefox cannot handle http://m.facebook.com/home.php

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

When I try to load http://m.facebook.com/home.php in Firefox, I get a popup asking me what "what should firefox do with this file?".

If I download the file and keep the same file extension (e.g. ~/downloads/home.php), Firefox will behave the same way when it tries to open this local file. However if I change the extension to .html (e.g. ~/downloads/home.html), Firefox will load the page without complaint.

Firefox can open http://www.facebook.com/home.php properly.

I can reproduce this behaviour on an (almost) clean Firefox profile I use only for handling bug reports.

In short: Firefox seems to fail to handle certain web pages because it doesn't know how to handle the .php file extension.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 26 21:40:11 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: firefox 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31.6-rt19 x86_64

[Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount)]

Same Issue in Firefox 3.6