Comment 0 for bug 589236

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Whenever I click a link to a file that the server sends as application/octet-stream (or some mime type that firefox knows nothing about) I don't get the "Open with" option, only the option to download the file.

This is a bug in my oppinion, since even if firefox can't tell what to do with the file, *I* might very well know what to do with it and should be given the option to select a program to open it with instead of being forced to save it first and then have to manually launch my program of choice and then open the file there.

In fact, I would personally prefer if firefox would *always* give me the option to open a file with an application of my choice, *even if* it thinks it already knows what to do, since I may not *always* want to open files with the same app even if I had configured one as the default for a certain file type.

I'll attach a screenshot to this bug-report showing a mpeg file being served to me by the server as application/octet-stream where firefox refuses to let me do anything other than save the file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on a link to a file that will be served with application/octet-stream.
2. observe that you are only allowed to save the file.

Actual Results:
Only "Save to Disk" is possible.

Expected Results:
"Open with" and "Save to Disk" should both be available.