816000 - FF17 mishandles pdf preferences

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 444440

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Geoff Kuenning]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121119183901

Steps to reproduce:

My preferences for opening PDFs are set to "Always Ask".  When opening a link with a PDF, such as:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/classes/hmc.cs134.201209/slides/class01_intro_beamer.pdf

the choice of application is ignored.


Actual results:

When the above link is clicked, the "what should firefox do with this file?" dialog appears.  I clicked on "Open with" radio button and chose xpdf, which is my preferred application for this file.  Then I clicked "OK".  Instead of launching xpdf, FF launched evince.


Expected results:

Obviously, Firefox should honor the user's choice.  The odd thing is that evince isn't even in my pulldown list, so I'm at a bit of a loss to understand why it was chosen.

It is perhaps relevant that when I choose acroread, that application is launched.  But choosing xpdf consistently launches evince.  Go figure...