>>>>> "ED" == Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ED> * Anders Boström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >>>>> "ED" == Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ED> * Anders Bostr?m ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> Package: mozilla-firefox >> >> Version: 1.0+dfsg.1-2 >> >> Severity: normal >> >> >> >> The download of a file just hangs if the program associated with the >> >> file type is missing. No error message, it just hangs. >> >> >> >> An error message and a dialog to select application would be good >> >> behavior. >> ED> Can you give me a reproduction recipe? >> >> In a shell: >> >> # touch /tmp/foo >> # chmod +x /tmp/foo >> >> Then edit an association to a filetype (for an exmple ZIP) in firefox >> to open with /tmp/foo . Press OK. ED> Perhaps a silly question coming from me, but how did you edit the ED> association? It wasn't immediately obvious to me. Edit->Preferences->Downloads->Select the File Type (ZIP)->Change Action...->Open them in this application:->Change...->Select /tmp/foo->Open->OK->OK >> In a shell: >> >> # rm /tmp/foo >> >> Then click on a link to a file of type ZIP in firefox => problem. >> >> The real-world case of this is when you run firefox on several >> computers with the same home-directory (using NFS) and when some >> application (for an example mplayer) is installed on one computer but >> not on all other. / Anders
