266531 - Open With dialogue is unusable with symlinks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247792

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[elladan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040609 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040609 Firefox/0.8

If I try to use a program with a symlink for open with, such as gvim, firefox
ignores the path I typed in and replaces it with the destination of the symlink.

For example, I type in:

/usr/local/bin/gvim

Firefox mangles my string, and replaces it with:

/usr/local/bin/vim

This of course doesn't work, since vim behaves much differently if it's called
as gvim vs. if it's called as vim.

Firefox must not mangle the string I type in.  If I enter
"/igle-wiggle-kajiggle/woop-woop/wagawumba!!@" it should attempt to execute
that program.  Anything else is terminally broken.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to set /usr/local/bin/gvim as the viewer for something
2. There is no step 2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It failed to use /usr/local/bin/gvim as the viewer.

Expected Results:  
It should execute the command I type in.

Comment 1

[Robin Monks]

Probably dupe of Bug 208739, but I won't chance it.

Comment 2

[Tim]

Definitely looks like bug 247792 (same thing being attempted).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247792 ***