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firefox package

  1. Bug #1551171
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1551171

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In , dutchkind (dutchkind) wrote :

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1
Build ID: 2012020800

Steps to reproduce:

With Firefox 10, and possibly before, default applications are selected by Firefox using /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, however, this list is a system generated list in random order and therefor does not reflect the user's preferences of which application should be used to open a file.

Actual results:

When I click on a pdf (for example), I want to have the option to open it in my default application, in my case in okular, and not in gimp. However, gimp is presented as the only choice because it happens to be the first in the row in /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. Selecting an other application is not very user friendly.

Expected results:

Instead of using the system wide cache Firefox should use $HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list or $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to honor the user's preferences, and if nothing is found there, then /usr/share/applications/defaults.list should be used instead of /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache