1166691 - Open with dialog doesn't offer correct apps to open, but from DN Library it works

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Anthony Dachy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150511103818
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Almost everything to download it opens download dialog "Open with" but there is no app in the list but "Sublime text (default)" , wich is default in system for text files.


Actual results:

The open with should list the app associated to the mimetype, to avoid opening everything from download library.


Expected results:

The associated extensions that are set to skip the dialog and open for example in PDF reader are opened with sublime text instead.


I have a Linux Mint version of Firefox 38.0, I wan't to help not rand :) Should I file a bug here or to Mint team?

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

This is not a Firefox for Android report. It is a Linux Firefox report.

Comment 2

[Anthony Dachy]

You are right, it was long ago, I don't know how it happened but I wouldn't choose Android if it clearly isn't. 

My problem is not up to date because I moved from Linux Mint to Arch and now Firefox 43 jumped to Gtk3 and I don't see this problem anymore. 

I belive the problem persist with gtk2 Firefox + Linux Mint 17.0 and 17.1 due its weird MIME type architecture.

Comment 3

[Jan Niklas Hasse]

This is likely caused by a line like

application/octet-stream=sublime-text.desktop;

in .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. See this very similar Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/918019

Comment 4

[Que Quotion]

I agree with Jan (as I have also been in that bug report). See the last couple of posts in that report for a workaround.

Does firefox get the list of available mime applications exclusively from ~/.config/mimeapps.list (or any of the other variations of this file, there are two locations for user versions and one or two more for system versions)?

Firefox should attempt to additionally parse .desktop files for their MimeType= property. That would give a more complete, and hopefully more accurate list of applications for opening files in.