286539 - setting associated application for documents follows symlinks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247792

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Auke Kok]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050303 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050303 Firefox/1.0.1

When associating a helper application with a new document type, the mozilla
suite follows the 'selected' location and reduces it to the real location of the
binary. This breaks installations where applications are symlinks that point to
*changing* applications.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. associate PDF files with /import/nfs/bin/acroread
2. see that the link was reworked into /import/nfs/Acrobat/5.05/bin/acroread
3. SA upgrades acroread to 7.00
4. mozilla cannot find acroread anymore



Expected Results:  
Mozilla should not unwind sylinks and accept the exact user input.


Mozilla should follow agreeable PATH components and allow the user to type in
the name of the application without the full path as well.

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Firefox Bugs belong to Firefox, not the Application Suite.  Moving

Comment 2

[Georg Müller]

I have the same problem with thunderbird.

Comment 3

[Tim]

Sounds like bug 247792 (which is about another effect of the same behavior that
causes this).

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