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firefox package

  1. Bug #918019
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 918019

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Ville Ranki (ville-ranki) wrote :

"me too". Firefox tries to open zip files in gedit. In Nautilus they are correctly associated to file-roller.

Removing this line seemed to fix the issue:
application/octet-stream=gedit.desktop;inkscape.desktop;

I believe the bug is NOT in Firefox, but in whatever adds the line to the mimeapps.list. It should be in sync with the file associations used by Nautilus. I don't know enough details of this mechanism to suggest the correct fix.