I have been plagued by this problem for at least a year. It was a motivating factor in upgrading my system from 11.04 to 12.04, and to my dismay, the install of 12.04 worked properly for a while... then went back to opening Excel files in gedit.
Thanks a MILLION, quequotion... your suggestion fixed my problem. Apparently this problem rears its ugly head in several ways. Like Martin Lorenz (martin-lorenz), I didn't encounter this issue in Firefox. I encountered this running both 11.04 (Gnome Classic environment) and 12.04 (Gnome fallback session environment). Specifically, when I would drill down through the Gnome panel/bar at the top, under Places, then under Recent Documents.... if I clicked an Excel (xls) file that was located on a network share, it would always open in gedit. I think I also saw this happen with Word (.doc) files, too, but I hardly ever use those. Whenever this annoyed me enough, I tried to figure out the cause via Google... apparently today was my lucky day! Thanks again quequotion!! -- 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 binary files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/918019/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
