287372 - Selected helper application not launched

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230153

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Robin Green]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

In the download dialog for the above URL, I chose to Open With... and then chose
/usr/bin/kate. However, kate is never started, and strace -f -e trace=process
proves it. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. strace -f -e trace=process firefox
2. Go to URL above
3. Choose Open
4. Choose /usr/bin/kate in the file selector
5. Press OK

Actual Results:  
Nothing. No evidence of process starting in strace log, either.

Expected Results:  
/usr/bin/kate should be executed

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Does the download finish? Is this just with kate or also with other 
applications.

Comment 2

[Robin Green]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does the download finish?

No. It gets stuck at "Starting...". But the browser remains reponsive?

> Is this just with kate or also with other 
> applications.

I tried also with /usr/bin/gedit - same result. As I said, the program is not
even launched.

Bug still exists in firefox 1.0.2.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Does the download finish?
> No. It gets stuck at "Starting...". But the browser remains reponsive?

I may be rushing my fences, but do you think that the reason that the
application is not started is because the download is not done. I am 
guessing that Firefox downloads the file to a particular location and
then starts the application.

If you think that this might be case, does your STRACE give any clue
as to the point at which the failure occurs?

Comment 4

[Robin Green]

In Firefox 1.5 the same steps cause a different error to occur, bug 230153. So I'm marking it a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230153 ***