258816 - "Open with Firefox" action name breaks shell & ShellNew handling

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 305040

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Daniel Beardsmore]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

In Windows 2000 (maybe also XP/9x/Me), the shell and ShellNew Explorer services
depend on the existence of a filetype action called "open". shell is what gives
you all the actions for a type (e.g. HKCR\FirefoxHTML\shell\Edit in Notepad\...)
and ShellNew handles creation of new files via File > New (e.g.
HKCR\.html\ShellNew\...).

Firefox calles its open action, "Open with Firefox", which means that both shell
and ShellNew break. Adding a ShellNew entry to allow for creation of new HTML
files via File > New will only function if Windows believes the resultant file
can be opened, i.e. there is an Open action. With it called "Open with Firefox",
Windows believes the file is unowned so ignores attempts to add a File > New entry.

Adding new actions such as "Edit with Notepad" also breaks - if you try this,
the new action is automatically placed at the top and made default, because
Windows cannot find an Open action and makes the most recently added one the
default, and it is impossible to force "Open with Firefox" back to the default.

The use of "Open with Firefox" over plain "Open" is cute, but it causes too much
grief trying to do anything useful with the file type afterwards. Simply
renaming "Open with Firefox" is an immediate fix, but this is not obvious, at
least, not to me it wasn't :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a registry key/value [HKCR\.html\ShellNew\]."NullFile"=""
2. Refresh an Explorer view
3. Right click and select New

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
A new "HTML document" entry should appear in the New submenu.

Comment 1

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Oh, I have found a nice workaround to this one. In
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML\shell\Open\command, specify "Open with Firefox" as
the value for default - this is the menu item title that overrides the action
name. Windows sees the action as "open" (thus permitting ShellNew on the
filetype), but the user sees "Open with Firefox".

This is not perfect, for in the Folder Options dialog the action will still show
as Open, although this is probably a Windows oversight. The other solution, that
Winamp uses, is to have both a default and a custom open action - have an "open"
action to placate Windows, and a separate action with a new name that is more
useful to the user, e.g. "Play in Winamp" in Winamp's case. The open action gets
pushed to the bottom below Enqueue in Winamp and Add to Winamp's Bookmarks List
where you don't notice it. In the case of Firebird it will be more noticeable
because there is not a long list of items :)

Lesser of two evils situation?

Comment 2

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Is this not now fixed?

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305040 ***