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

[Ian Jackson]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Firefox and the `you have chosen to open ...' dialogue"):
> I would really like to have an idea of how many people find the new
> behaviour better.  This is supposed to be a useability improvement.
> If in practice it confuses and annoys people then we should revert it;
> if the benefits are marginal then reverting it because of these
> security fears seems reasonable.

Thanks to everyone who replied.  No-one has come out strongly or
clearly in favour of the current behaviour, so I am going to revert
it.  I'll leave the code in there so that we can change our mind
easily (and so you can set it yourself in about:config) but I will
change the default.

I agree that making the dialogue be a gnome program selector would be
a good idea but I don't plan to try to implement that myself and it's
rather late in the release cycle anyway.

Ian.