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yukonho

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 3

XFCE opening folders in Firefox instead of Thunar

If I do something like select Dropbox's "Open Dropbox Folder" or choose to "Open containing folder" of a downloaded file in Chromium, Firefox starts up and displays the folder contents (as a directory listing). This is baffling for a number of reasons: first, I have selected Thunar as my preferred file manager (choosing PCManFM does not fix this problem, either), and second, Chromium is selected as my default browser, not Firefox.

Any suggestions on what might be causing this and how I can address it? Thanks very much in advance!

twix

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Registered: 2010-10-07

Posts: 63

Re: XFCE opening folders in Firefox instead of Thunar

I have the same problem, and I don't know how to handle this type of MIME problems (I tried mimeo, but it does nothing ...)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: XFCE opening folders in Firefox instead of Thunar

See if installing perl-file-mimeinfo helps.

rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: XFCE opening folders in Firefox instead of Thunar

You should give some more info when posting here, such as the desktop environment you use. This may help (discussion on xdg-open with no desktop environment, which i assume is the case here) : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … nvironment

Last edited by rwd (2011-03-05 19:31:04)

jlindgren

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Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 260

Re: XFCE opening folders in Firefox instead of Thunar

Sorry to post on an old thread, but I had the same problem and this solved it for me:
$ xdg-mime default pcmanfm.desktop application/x-directory

I use PCMan for my file manager; if you want Thunar then replace pcmanfm.desktop with Thunar.desktop.