firefox displays unfriendly window when opening a file with different from default program

[Hidde Brugmans]

Open firefox
Browse somewhere
open some file, in my case: http://www.winamp.com/bin/trailer.pls?id=2
  (.pls defaults to rhythmbox)
open it with an other than the default application: click rhythmbox and select
other.
This gives us the "choose helper application" gtk file selector.

Instead, it should present a window with a list installed programs, like
nautilus does when you add an program to it's list nautilus > rightmouse on file
> open with other... > "open with" window.

Default firefox to use the open with dialog instead.

[David Farning (dfarning)]

Tested under breezy
firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
i686

I can confirm Hidde's reported bug.

It make more sense to open a list of installed applications rather than a file
selector.

-dtf

[David Farning (dfarning)]

This is a duplicate of Bug #18995

-dtf

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

You should ask mdz/ogra for editbugs privileges if you continue your Bugzilla
work :)

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18995.