311954 - Possibilty to pass the URL of a file to the helper program instead of downloading it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225882

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Gebauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Clicking on a link that does not contain a hypertext document or plain text
document that will cause Firefox to show a window that lets the user choose to
either save it to disk or to open it with a helper program.
In the second case the file will be downloaded into a temporary directory and
then  the helper program will be started.

When I want to open the URL with a program (without downloading the file) I have
to right-click on the link, select "Copy Link Location", open a console window,
type the name of the program and paste the URL.

There should be a possibility to pass the URL directly to the helper program. I
could think of a third radio button: "Pass location to: ".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Click on a link that does not contain a hypertext document or plain text.
Actual Results:  
A window lets me choose:

What should Firefox do with this file?
( ) Open with ...
( ) Save to Disk
[ ] Do this automatically for files like this from now on.

Expected Results:  
A window which lets me choose:

What should Firefox do with this file?
( ) Open with ...
( ) Pass location to ... 
( ) Save to Disk
[ ] Do this automatically for files like this from now on.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225882 ***