528785 - Preferences - Applications - dialog isn't suitable to firefox behavior

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[mey.wer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.0.3, Ant.com Toolbar 1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.0.3, Ant.com Toolbar 1.1

In Edit Preferences Applications (on windoofs maybe in Tools instead of Edit), there you find two columns: „content type“ an „action“.
But if you choose „Always ask“, firefox will ask you to download or to open certain files with a certain (or another) program. This certain program, firefox will offer you, should be given in a third column in the preferences-dialog!!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open edit - prefereces - applications
2. choose „Always ask“ for every filetype (e.g. pdf, odt)
3. go to a website, click to a file like pdf, odt, ...

Actual Results:  
firefox will ask you either to download or to open the file with a certain (or another) app.

Expected Results:  
firefox should offer a certain app I entered in a third column in the edit-preferences-applications-dialog before

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

rsx, what do you make of this?

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

It definitely should be supported by mimeTypes.rdf, given that NC:alwaysAsk, NC:useSystemDefault, and NC:externalApplication are separate entries for each individual MIME-type definition. However, I don't know how the actual default is determined if there are multiple NC:externalApplication entries for a given type.