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has caused the Debian Bug report #763091,
regarding "open with" dialog does not offer well-established options
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763091: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763091
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 32.0.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Forwarded: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418830
iceweasel, when trying to open a file with an external application,
offers the default application, other applications that have been
previously used, and "other". with "other", the user gets to open a
program binary.
(this is typically a "What should Iceweasel do with this file?" / "What
should Firefox do with this file?" question, and also happens in
preferences under "Applications" when you chose "Use other").
the well-established method of determining which application a file can
be opened with on unix desktops are .desktop files. desktops like kde or
xfce, in their file browsers' "open with" dialogs, offer all the
applications that support that mime type, and additionally offer other
applications (useful in case a mime type or a mapping is wrong). in
addition, they offer full program names, icons and might even offer
descriptions. iceweasel should follow those examples.
picking an application from its binary-path requires knowledge of the
$PATH and the application's binary name, something that can not be
expected from a linux user these days.
this bug has been reported against firefox already in 2008, but apart
from a "me too" has been ignored there. this might not be high on
mozilla's priorities, but from debian's point of view this package
severely lacks integration with the rest of the desktop.
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: AngScope - Simple AngularJS Scope Inspector for Firebug
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Copper (Cu)
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/Copper
Status: enabled
Name: Copy RDFa metadata
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: user-disabled
Name: Default theme
Location:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: Deutsch (DE) Language Pack locale
Location:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/[email protected]
Package: iceweasel-l10n-de
Status: enabled
Name: Extended DNSSEC Validator
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Firebug
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.5.1 (1.5.1-1))
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
Package: icedtea-7-plugin:amd64
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii icedtea-7-plug 1.5.1-1 amd64 web browser plugin based on OpenJ
ii iceweasel 32.0.3-1 amd64 Web browser based on Firefox
ii iceweasel-l10n 1:32.0.3-1 all German language package for Icewe
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.4
ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.1
ii libasound2 1.0.28-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-11
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-5
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.8-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-1.1
ii libffi6 3.1-2
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.1
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-2
ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-15
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.8-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.0-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.24-1
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.3-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.10.7-1
ii libnss3 2:3.17.1-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.7-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.6-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-15
ii libvpx1 1.3.0-2.1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1
ii procps 1:3.3.10-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn fonts-mathjax <none>
ii fonts-oflb-asana-math 000.907-6
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-1
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-3
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-10
pn mozplugger <none>
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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