First, let me say that I had a well thought out and informative post to add here, but the opportunity to do so was denied me by a rather nasty crash bug in the linux kernel version 3.2.0.x which has several open bugs and no available solutions.
So now I post while somewhat enraged, forgive me. I have this issue with greater severity; firefox tries to open everything in gedit. I have had this and similar issues before (firefox tries to open everything in totem, firefox can't find a default program to open anything in, etc) The problem is in part design, as firefox does it's own mimetype recognition to avoid depending on the operating system's mimetype recognition. Supposedly, firefox should be able to get the list of mime applications from the operating system and incorporate them into it's own mimetype recognition. In my experience this has never worked 100% in linux, and is the most often broken feature of firefox. I've learned to live with it and odds are you will have to as well. Several people have filed bug reports over the years, with each one of them ending in dismay or a hacked out workaround but never a solution. Most of the time the entire dicussion failed to communicate what exactly was wrong. Good luck; I think I'm going to format my hard drives, install grub- invaders, and declare victory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918019 Title: Firefox does not use default application to open PDF files Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is beyond me, so I would like some help. Up until a software update within the last few months (maybe the upgrade to Ubuntu 11.100, I can't remember), if I opened a PDF file in Firefox, it would always ask, and the default aplication for that file type was Document Viewer. Now it defaults to 'gedit'. I have tried (through 'Edit --> Preferences') setting my default application for PDF files to 'Document Viewer', and then downloading a PDF file to open it, but for some reason the dialog box then says 'Open with...' and 'gedit'. I will attach screenshots of: 1. Application Preferences; and 2. Dialog box showing Open with... gedit (default). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: firefox 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. AplayDevices: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC260 Analog [ALC260 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC260 Analog [ALC260 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: el_gallo_azul 1675 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20111228084953 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xe8a00000 irq 44' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC260' Components : 'HDA:10ec0260,103c3011,00100400' Controls : 24 Simple ctrls : 13 Channel: release Date: Wed Jan 18 14:31:02 2012 ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) IpRoute: default via 192.168.0.253 dev eth0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 metric 1 Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=9.0.1/20111228084953 (Running) RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-13 (65 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/18/2005 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: 786D1 v01.03 dmi.board.name: 09F8h dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 43e0119 dmi.chassis.type: 4 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786D1v01.03:bd05/18/2005:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqdc7600SmallFormFactor:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn09F8h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP Compaq dc7600 Small Form Factor dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/918019/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
