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Comment 20 for bug 918019

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Martin Lorenz (martin-lorenz) wrote : Re: [Bug 918019] Re: Firefox does not use default application to open binary files

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So far, that I can say, the workaround did the trick.
I stll have some issues with mime-type recognition (for example links
 get opened in firefox/iceweasel by default. When it's an https-Link
epiphany will spawn instead ...)

I think the mime-type handling in Gnome/Nautilus/Firefox is
alltogether a little hacky and incomplete.
Maybe different implementations are mutually exclusive but forced to
live together … ?

That much from me.
tnx quequotion

martin

Am 09.11.2012 00:57, schrieb Joshua Montee:
> I have been plagued by this problem for at least a year. It was a
> motivating factor in upgrading my system from 11.04 to 12.04, and
> to my dismay, the install of 12.04 worked properly for a while...
> then went back to opening Excel files in gedit.
>
> Thanks a MILLION, quequotion... your suggestion fixed my problem.
>
> Apparently this problem rears its ugly head in several ways. Like
> Martin Lorenz (martin-lorenz), I didn't encounter this issue in
> Firefox. I encountered this running both 11.04 (Gnome Classic
> environment) and 12.04 (Gnome fallback session environment).
> Specifically, when I would drill down through the Gnome panel/bar
> at the top, under Places, then under Recent Documents.... if I
> clicked an Excel (xls) file that was located on a network share, it
> would always open in gedit. I think I also saw this happen with
> Word (.doc) files, too, but I hardly ever use those.
>
> Whenever this annoyed me enough, I tried to figure out the cause
> via Google... apparently today was my lucky day! Thanks again
> quequotion!!
>
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