224121 - can't select file-helper applications in the Open With preferences

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 222563

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Jim Tuttle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7

Open Preferences.  Choose the "Downloads" preference pane.  Select an item in
the File Type list, then click "Change Action".  Select the "Open them in this
application" button and then click "Change" (if necessary).  In the resulting
File/Folder dialog box that comes up, you're supposed to pick the Application
that will handle this File Type from now on.  However, all Applications are
"greyed out" (can't choose them).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(see Details)
Actual Results:  
All applications are "greyed out" (can't select them).  Folders can be opened
(so the hierarchy can be traversed), but you can only ultimately select "files",
not applications.

Expected Results:  
Applications should be able to be chosen from the dialog box.

Comment 1

[Jim Tuttle]

After submitting this, I finally found another bug that's somewhat similar:
#222563 (filed by Nathan, so I added him to this CC list, and me to his).  That
one is filed against Thunderbird 0.3, though, not Firebird (0.7/nightly).

Still, I'm betting that there's some shared code (or philosophy) in there
somewhere that's causing these problems on Mac OS X.

Looking forward to a fix!  :-)

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

downloads is a shared backend in the mozapps toolkit, so this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 222563 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change