Firefox should prefer GNOME/freedesktop mime system over mailcap.
Bug #24883 reported by
Juha Sahakangas
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
|
Ian Jackson |
Bug Description
Firefox supports GNOME mime system, but it currently only uses it as last
resort, if application isn't found in /etc/mailcap. This should be the other way
around, since Firefox is a desktop application.
Steps to reproduce: follow a link to a file of a type that firefox doesn't
handle internally and has different handler in mailcap than in gnome mime system.
Good examples are text subtypes, for example .c source code, text/x-csrc. Notice
that firefox wants to open the file with less, instead of gedit.
Comment out the three text/* entries in /etc/mailcap and perform the test again,
firefox now correctly proposes gedit for opening the file.
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Test case.