Comment 58 for bug 589236

Binary package hint: firefox

There is currently a bug in firefox upstream where the "open with" dialog box will not appear for application links being sent as application/octet-stream. Instead of dropping back to examining the file extension and using the appropriate helper application, it simply defaults to what it is supposed to for octet-streams and only provide a "save as" or "cancel" dialog box. The bug is located here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327323

See the "testdownload" link on the bug report page for an example of what I'm talking about:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=334071

Mozilla has acknowledged it is a problem (since 2006!) and will be fixed but that scheduled launch will be for mozilla 1.9.3, which is firefox 3.7.

I'm trying to get my organization migrated over to Ubuntu but this firefox bug in combination with needing to be able to handle several attachments from zimbra creates a problem. I've already patched their current firefox (3.6.3) with the following patches and it has been running solid for months now.

Below are links to the appropriate patches to make this work as it should (I guess I can't upload more than one patch at a time?). I would appreciate it if Ubuntu would please consider applying the patches to their firefox package so we can get this working as it should.

nsMMEInfoUnix.patch
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=442794
nsOSHelperAppService.patch
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=442796

 Thank you,
      Tyler