914009 - firefox does not remember app used to open torrent file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 453455

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[ill]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130803192641

Steps to reproduce:

when downloading a torrent from https://kickass.to/, firefox will not remember the previous app used to open it, requiring the user to manually select the app each and every time.


Actual results:

see above


Expected results:

see above

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

--2013-09-08 20:33:38--  http://torcache.net/torrent/956177812891D2E567EE2ADD2A087041259C6108/[kickass.to]riddick.2013.cam.x264.playnow.torrent
Connecting to torcache.net (torcache.net)|91.236.116.18|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: nginx/1.3.8
  Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 03:33:38 GMT
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream
  Content-Length: 23507
  Last-Modified: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 21:03:01 GMT
  Connection: keep-alive
  ETag: "522ce605-5bd3"
  Content-Encoding: gzip
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
Length: 23507 (23K) [application/octet-stream]
Remote file exists.


application/octet-stream is not a unique mime type.