We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response
from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please
feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could,
please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this
confirms
The problem still exists. What should I say else. It is easy to
reproduce.
** Changed in: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired = Confirmed
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** Changed in: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
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*.XPI should be associated with Firefox in KDE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385128
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Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. While .xpi files are used in Firefox,
there are also used in other applications based on xulrunner such as
Thunderbird or Songbird. It is not clear from the extension which application
should be opened. Therefore, I am marking this as won't fix.
Please
But opening them as zip-file is in most cases also not the choice. I do
not know how it is in Gnome, but in KDE there is the possibility to
associate with more then one filetype and sort by priority. I think it
is a reasonable assumption that most extensions are used in Firefox, so
Firefox would
No, it's not the obvious choice as Thunderbird and other xulrunner based
apps use the same file format. I would think that most people that
install Firefox extensions do it from within Firefox. In that case,
they never even see the .xpi file. I would suggest you make a proposal
on
Either Firefox should advertise support for this mimetype, or shared-
mime-info should differentiate is from a zip, but there's nothing on
dolphin's end that can really be done.
** Package changed: dolphin (Ubuntu) = firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
** Also affects: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Importance:
