246890 - unable to free the associated helper application when helper does not exits

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[David T Farning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040612 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040612 Firefox/0.8

I attempted to assign *.pl downloads to a helper application (just to see if
there was an emmbedded editor).  I followed to open with dialog, then clicked
other.  Another dialog opened indicating that I have no other helpers available.
 Clicked  ok.  Now, whenever I atempt to download a .pl file, I get the
following message.

/tmp/LessonShell.pl could not be opend, because the associate helper does not
exist.  Change the association in your preferences.

Yet, when I follow Tools->options there is no option to free .pl from any
associations.

thanks
-dtf

ps


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to associate file type to helper app via non-existant helper by
clicking on other

2.  attempt to download that file type
3.

Actual Results:  
error message as stated above.

Expected Results:  
given error message as above then under options->downloads there should be a way
to free the association.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Reporter: can you reproduce this behaviour in a firefox 0.9.1, please ?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[David T Farning]

Subsequent releases have eliminated the problem.  Marking as fixed
Thanks
David Farning

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

We don't know what fixed this worksforme