[Bug 918019] Re: Firefox does not use default application to open binary files

[Rudolf Leitgeb]

It's been well over a year since this bug was reported and confirmed,
and with Ubuntu 13.04 it's still there in its full glory. From looking
through strace and wireshark logs it becomes evident that the web server
reports a file as x-octetstream, and instead of using file magic to
determine the actual file type firefox just picks the application listed
in that obscure file .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

All this leads me to two questions:
- which application came up with the silly idea to put gedit into that file as standard handler of all x-octetstream BLOBs?
- and why does firefox grey out the radio button that would allow me to permanently assign another application to this data type?

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