230040 - use system path to find helper app executables

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[B. F.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040104 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040104 Firebird/0.7

Why it is necessary do give the absolut path to (for example) xmms to open
*.mp3s with xmms. Firebird should use $PATH to search for the binarie, like it
is standard on unix und unix like systems.

It is annoying to search in /usr/bin for binaries like xmms.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Expected Results:  
It should be possible to say, that mp3s should be opened with xmms, without
giving the full path to the binary.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is an issue mainly on *nix platforms, the filepicker is a cross-platform
solution, I'm not sure how practical it would be to try to expand this to use
PATH to find a match.

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Confirming this as an enhancement request. Switching over to Linux, because it
would be more commonly used there, but of course should be available on FreeBSD too.

--> NEW, with the caveat that you shouldn't expect to see this implemented
anytime soon.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

That should read switching over to All/All, because Windows/MacOS X could
benefit too. Thanks to timeless for pointing out my brain lag. :)

Comment 4

[Alan Tam]

I don't see why Windows doesn't have %PATH% although Windows users may not know the name of the executable.

This is clearly benefitial since, in *nix, usually only those in $PATH are helper apps we will use.

Comment 5

[aldo-public]

Isn't it a duplicate of bug #56662 ?