259376 - Set to default browser fails to assign text to the (Default) refistry key for the FirefoxHTML tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 305040

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[odapple]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When setting Firefox to be the default browser, a new registry tag,
"FirefoxHTML", is created in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, along with sub-tags
"DefaultIcon" and "shell".  However, no text is assigned to the "(Default)" key
for the "FirefoxHTML" tag.  This prevents the "FirefoxHTML" file type from
appearing in the "File Types" dialogues, which means that "regedit" is only way
to assign other right-click "options" (such as edit or print) to the file type.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox.
2. Use the Firefox Options dialog to set Firefox to be the default browser.
3. Use "regedit" to examine "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML"
4. Set "(Default)" to "Firefox HTML Document"
5. Notice that "Firefox HTML Document" now appears in the "File Types" dialog

Comment 1

[odapple]

I erred in my registry teminology.  "FirefoxHTML" is a registry "key" and
"(Default)" is a text "value" for this "key".

Comment 2

[Clay Hansen]

At work I run Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 
on a Windows 98SE machine.

On my work computer, Firefox always comes up when I click a HTM file because
 I chose it to "open" HTM file types in folder options.
Yesterday I went in firefox options and saw Firefox was not set as my default
browser.
So I made firefox my default browser.
After that I see my "edit with GVIM" right click selection is gone.
So I went looking for folder options file types HTM and could not find it on the
list.
Next I tried to create a new HTM extension.
Windows told me the HTM extension already existed as "FirefoxHTML".
But "FirefoxHTML" does not appear on the folder options file types list,
so I cannot edit it to add "edit with GVIM" capability.

A bug search for "folder options file types FirefoxHTML" returns 200 hits.
This looks like Bugzilla Bug 259376.
Following odapple's instructions, I got FirefoxHTML onto the file types list
and added the "edit" capability that I wanted.
Thanks, odapple !

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[odapple]

I do not encounter this problem on my computers since I have already installed
Firefox, made it my default browser, and modified the registry to fix the
problem.  However, in August I installed the then current version of Firefox on
her WinXP system and the problem was still present.  

It should be easy to fix this problem.  When the code that makes Firefox the
default browser creates the registry key "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML" it
should set the "(Default)" value for this new key to a resonable string e.g.
"Firefox HTML Document".

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

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