Firefox and the `you have chosen to open ...' dialogue

[Ian Jackson]

Ian Jackson writes ("Firefox and the `you have chosen to open ...' dialogue"):
> As part of the DefaultApplicationsFirefox goal for Dapper, I have
> suppressed (in the usual case) the dialogue box you get when (for
> example) clicking on a PDF in firefox.  There has been some queries
> about this and I'd like to deal with them here.

I'm still getting lots of gripes about this, mainly in bug reports and
mainly of the form `I don't like this'.  It's a shame that (with a few
notable exceptions) we've not had much of the way of clear and
reasoned argument, and not in the right venue either.

I don't have a strong view about this issue and given the level of
pushback I think the right thing to do is some kind of user survey.
Do we have any mechanism for holding a poll of some kind ?

Ian.