It's been well over a year since this bug was reported and confirmed, and with Ubuntu 13.04 it's still there in its full glory. From looking through strace and wireshark logs it becomes evident that the web server reports a file as x-octetstream, and instead of using file magic to determine the actual file type firefox just picks the application listed in that obscure file .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
All this leads me to two questions: - which application came up with the silly idea to put gedit into that file as standard handler of all x-octetstream BLOBs? - and why does firefox grey out the radio button that would allow me to permanently assign another application to this data type? -- 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
