Closed
Bug 568218
Opened 14 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
Firefox incorrectly honors mimeinfo.cache on Linux and ignores defaults.list and mimeapps.list
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 727422
People
(Reporter: gustavo, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100415 Caixa Magica/1.9.2.3-0.1xcm14 (14) Firefox/3.6.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100415 Caixa Magica/1.9.2.3-0.1xcm14 (14) Firefox/3.6.3 Firefox is handling file associations in a broken way on Linux - it ignores defaults.list and mimeapps.list - it honors mimeinfo.cache which is a cache file not file association list (changes on this file are undone by the system each time a new application is installed - this happens via the command "update-desktop-database") Note: defaults.list and mimeapps.list are part of the shared-mime-info package from freedesktop.org and are usually located on /usr/share/applications Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.go to a directory that hosts files via http 2.click on a file 3.check that the handler for that mimetype depends on what is present in mimeinfo.cache and doesn't depend on defaults.list and mimeapps.list Actual Results: Firefox opens the first application listed on mimeinfo.cache for the corresponding mimetype. Expected Results: Firefox should open the first application listed on mimeapps.list for the corresponding mimetype or if it is not listed the default application for that mimetype listed on defaults.list
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Comment 1•14 years ago
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I forgot to add that apparently mimeinfo.cache lists the handlers in an arbitrary order which is not controlled by the user.
Updated•13 years ago
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Version: unspecified → 3.6 Branch
Comment 2•13 years ago
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Link to thread introducing mimeapps.list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xdg/9828 "Spec:" http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
Updated•12 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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