Firefox nightly doesn't use any file associations on downloaded files

themusicalduck · 2011-08-16 18:30:12

I am using Firefox 8.0a with Gnome 3 and Shell. Chromium will open any downloaded files with the correct applications, but Firefox always asks me to locate an application to open a file with. Rather than searching through for all the correct binaries to open files with and setting them that way, is there a way to tell Firefox to always use the correct programs that have already been associated in Nautilus?

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … n_problems then I need to install the libgnome package, but it is already installed.

edit: I also tried the second command on that page -

ln -s ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

but got this output:

ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/theo/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache': File exists

Last edited by themusicalduck (2011-08-16 18:39:36)

karol · 2011-08-16 18:48:56

Where did you get this firefox from? I think we have firefox 6 in the repos.

themusicalduck · 2011-08-16 18:57:17

From the AUR - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19830

fsckd · 2011-08-16 19:10:25

This will probably get better replies in the AUR issues subforum. Moving.

SS4 · 2011-08-16 21:17:49

I have the same issue running firefox-nightly in KDE. I tried the symlink but also to no avail even removing the link's file and putting in the link

nikicat · 2012-06-25 14:10:34

Hi all, I've faced this problem too after installing firefox-nightly from the aur.
I believe that problem root is that linux binaries from mozilla are built with most generic flags, so are not integrated well with Archlinux.
I've just posted new PKGBUILD for firefox nightly that builds firefox from latest 'tip' tag from mozilla-central, linking it with system libs (except nspr and cairo, that fail build because of some bugs).
Build process takes some time (about an hour on Core i7), but you get nightly built with almost the same flags as firefox from [communiti] as a result.
gstreamer (H.264) support also included.

Inxsible · 2012-06-25 15:12:27

nikicat, please do not necrobump threads. Please read our forum rules and abide by them. The thread was started when Firefox was at version 8. Now its 13. Many things may have changed. Please start a different thread and link to this one if you feel its relevant.

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#1 2011-08-16 18:30:12

Firefox nightly doesn't use any file associations on downloaded files

#2 2011-08-16 18:48:56

Re: Firefox nightly doesn't use any file associations on downloaded files

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#4 2011-08-16 19:10:25

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#5 2011-08-16 21:17:49

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#6 2012-06-25 14:10:34

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