Comment 15 for bug 1076889

(In reply to comment #6)
> This is because the browser you specified, which probably is Firefox,
> supports opening XML files and advertises as such. Only my system
> firefox.desktop contains the following entry:
>
> MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.
> xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
>
> Unfortunately, when you attempt to launch something the KDE launcher first
> checks to see if external browser are defined and whether or not those
> browsers are capable of handling the requested resource. If that is, the
> document is launched with the external browser. Konqueror's desktop files do
> not contain any text/xml in their MimeType entry and as such are not
> affected by this problem.
>
> Anyhow, this issue is caused by the same code that causes another closely
> related bug# 182591. When that bug is addressed eventually, this one will
> probably get resolved as well.

Hi,
I'm also affected by this and modified /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop to not contain text/xml (which by the way does not match the real mimetype "application/xml").

Unfortunately this didn't help. For now I did not specify a default browser at all - which works.

Is there a better workaround ?