[Bug 243704] Re: Firefox3 does not remember application association

[stek79]

Yeah,
   I definitely confirm that!

It's pretty annoying in fact.

Let us know how we can help to track this down.

2008/11/13 sciasbat <fabio.forno at gmail.com>

> Bug still present in intrepid (and apparently much more frequent and
> annoying)
>
> --
> Firefox3 does not remember application association
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243704
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> Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released
> Status in "firefox-3.0" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Hi,
>     using the great Firefox3, I've noticed that a buggy behaviour that was
> present in Firefox2 is still occuring.
>
> In a nutshell, what happens to me is that firefox does not always remember
> the application association that has been previously set.
>
> For example, during web surfing I open a WMV video, and I choose to play it
> with the Totem plugin. I obviously check the option to remember this
> association.
>
> Now, in the beginning the videos are correctly played with Totem plugin.
> After some time, though, Firefox keeps asking me which application to used
> to open those files.  If I go to the Application section of Firefox
> preferences, I FIND the entry that associate WMV -> Totem plugin - but it
> seems that it is taken into consideration by firefox.
>
> Note: the "open with" popup windows has the remember option already
> checked, when it comes up. As I said early, I've experimented this issue
> also with firefox 2.0.
>
> Let me know if I can help to track down this issue. I'm using Hardy
> up-to-date as of now.
>
> ste at ste-ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.04
> Release:        8.04
>
> ste at ste-ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
> firefox:
>  Installed: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
>  Candidate: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
>  Version table:
>  *** 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
>        500 http://sm.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
>        500 http://sm.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
>

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