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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918019 Title: Firefox does not use default application to open PDF files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/918019/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
