-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So far, that I can say, the workaround did the trick. I stll have some issues with mime-type recognition (for example links get opened in firefox/iceweasel by default. When it's an https-Link epiphany will spawn instead ...)
I think the mime-type handling in Gnome/Nautilus/Firefox is alltogether a little hacky and incomplete. Maybe different implementations are mutually exclusive but forced to live together … ? That much from me. tnx quequotion martin Am 09.11.2012 00:57, schrieb Joshua Montee: > 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!! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQnLF1AAoJECZ8myNlGwU1YZEH/RUv7wCsqNME57gusYK3PayM YkdLoCTGVSB6bZWh00p0+d2KRM/8O9BqjR97qXWtebBV9Z7tZIFcl4HOYeSYdARy 5UR583Nw3wGrmTLxqXe2I7Odyb8Ny/3BzN7c7gF2rAF7y+48yGVFLBWYVT4vIjxk jO8oQGDpD9yya6wM4bBaLNvZFJnUZ+SiWtWFATSL0Ew6CA9wr+t5S2u1ksgfRAMb h/mfpkFIGY2QOv2lzFIym9zIUB+fo1kSS0sP8zRaIpEz4EBfhM0OWYkgrQPGZUSK mQy6mSJYYi1bE8FCOZSIW18mdurGgLLEaMt8Kw+CYzGSFdMt9Boms7RQy45ijLc= =as1L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
