234388 - Firefox steals image file type associations

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216432

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

After installing the Firefox 0.8 milestone, I noticed all my GIF, JPEG, and PNG
image files were associated with Firefox.

After changing the file associations (in Windows' Folder Options->File Types) to
my custom image-viewing progam, Firefox informs me that it is no longer the
default browser... even though HTML, HTM, and XML files remain associated with
Firefox and start up in Firefox when opened from Windows Explorer!

Telling Firefox to make itself the default browser reassociates the JPEG/GIF/PNG
file extensions to Firefox.

Shouldn't Firefox only look for association with hypertext files when testing if
it is the current browser?  I *would* like Firefox to inform me if any other
application has taken over HTML files, but having to deal with the dialog box
every time Firefox starts is annoying.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Nathan Lyle]

I noticed this same behavior with FireBird 0.7 / Windows 2000, and when I
upgraded just now, it did the same thing. Annoying, because a person needs to
know how to change file type associations in Windows. Not everyone can do that.
(Or even wants to know.) Please fix this for future versions/installations! 

Comment 2

[Charles Fenwick]

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216432#c2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216432 ***