Firefox tries to open Microsoft Office .doc files with gedit even though it should try to open them with LibreOffice

[Lazy]

As the summary says, only gedit is an option from the open menu. I have to manually type "/usr/bin/libreoffice" to the "Other..." option to actually open the file.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 11.0+build1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
BuildID: 20120403131243
Channel: release
Date: Mon Apr 9 15:03:27 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=11.0/20120403131243 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/07/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
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[Rick Reznicsek (rreznicsek11)]

This may be solved by upgrading to a newer version of Firefox because I tried to recreate your bug and was not able. I have Firefox 19 though so you may want to just upgrade and it will choose libraoffice.
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[Eero (eero+launchpad)]

Yep, tested this again and Libreoffice correctly opens the document from Firefox 19. I don't know which version actually fixed the issue, but this bug report can probably be closed now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[EcLiPsE (softinn72)]

Hello,
I am experiencing the same issue right now with Firefox 23, but I am sure it was working fine one or two firefox updates earlier...
I have noticed also that Firefox tries to open .doc files with gedit, but .docx file are associated correctly with Libreoffice and work fine.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Lazy and anyone else affected,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. This bug was reported some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that was reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu?

Please let us know if you do otherwise this bug report will expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]