(In reply to PhobosK from comment #36) I've seen the same issue in Fedora. My workaround was to "sabotage" the org.freedesktop.Filemanager1 dbus service by creating ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service and changing the Exec line to e.g. /usr/bin/false or /usr/bin/true; this is better since it's persistent and isn't affected by system updates... etc. This makes Firefox use whatever file manager I set in ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list (see comment #31).
Changing Exec to /usr/bin/dolphin somehow made "open containing folder" open the file manager, but the firefox UI gets sort of blocked/hung for a while, probably because firefox tries to query the capabilities of org.freedesktop.FileManager1 via dbus first, (just a guess). [..] -- 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/133133 Title: "Open containing folder" is only working if nautilus is present Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox Tools->Downloads-> (Right click)->Open containing folder Result: Nothing happens (not even an error). Expected: An error, a dialog asking to choose a file manager or just konqueror showing the folder. Fix: add the following line to prefs.js user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.file", "konqueror"); ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Aug 17 12:54:22 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Package: firefox 2.0.0.5+1-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 SourcePackage: firefox Uname: Linux localhost 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/133133/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp