329231 - does not register itself as being capable of handling (plain) XML files

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Kurt Jaeke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

It is impossible to open a raw XML file (w/o stylesheets etc.) on MacOSX at the moment by directly clicking it, since Firefox does not "register" itself as being able to handle XML files. 
Instead, I have to Control-click the file, choose "Open with another application", there, I have to choose "all applications", before I can click Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Control-click a ".XML" File
2. Choose "Open with..."

Actual Results:  
Firefox is not listed in the "open with" menu as an application that can open and handle XML files.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should be listed in the "open with" menu as an application that can open and handle XML files.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

Other OS X apps behave the same way, eg. Textedit suffers from the same problem.
Does it change if you check the box for "always open with", or is that on a per-file basis?

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I'm not sure why Firefox should register itself as an XML file handler.

Comment 3

[Kurt Jaeke]

> I'm not sure why Firefox should register itself as an XML file handler.
I don't want Firefox to be the _default_ handler, I just want it to show to MacOSX as being capable of handling XML files. 
Opening plain XML files with Safari will result in an empty page, the "Property List Editor" most likely crashes (as it always does). Firefox has that cool feature of printing an XML structure clickable, with all the sub-elements hideable. I like that, and therefore I'd like this to be available in a more direct manner.

Comment 4

[Patrick]

Not sure if FF should provide this functionality.

As a workaround: If you register Firefox to handle ALL XML files, and then later on register Property inspector again as the default handler. Will Firefox be listed under "Open with another application"?

Comment 5

[Kurt Jaeke]

In response to comment #4: No.


Could you guys please put in that feature? It's still not present in the 2.0 series. 
The XML Pretty Printer is a cool feature that does not deserve to be hidden behind OS obstacles. As said in comment #3: it should not be the default handler, I just want FF to be offered in the "Open with >" menu (which is MacOSX auto generated).

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

I'm not entirely sure how much sense it makes for Firefox to be registered as a handler for XML files, since we don't offer any capability to author or edit XML documents, but this is a valid bug, and so I'll confirm it and let the platform team make that call.