244207 - Choosing windows "edit..." command tries (and fails) to use editor.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176096

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When choosing the Windows "Edit" command on a .html file, Firefox attempts to
open the file and then fails because it doesn't have an editor.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click html file in Windowx Explorer
2. Choose "Edit"

Actual Results:  
Alert pops up, page does not get opened by any program
"The file /content/editor.xul cannot be found. Please check the location and try
again."

Expected Results:  
Firefox should not be configured to edit html files since it does not come with
an editor.

Comment 1

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

Firefox hasn't been setting itself as default HTML editor since before Firefox
0.8 was released.  That was resolved with bug 176096.  You're likely seeing a
carryover from a pre-0.8 version that set itself as the default editor.

Try resetting the default editor (Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Options ->
Programs is a good place to do this) and then try the latest release (0.9) or
nightly and set that version as the default browser.  It should modify HTML
Editor settings.

If you can confirm that this problem is fixed, this can likely be resolved
duplicate.

Comment 2

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176096 ***