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

[quequotion]

>Martinique

That's a really good idea! This could solve mime association problems
across the board.

I made two slight modifications, one because I quit Ubuntu and the other
is more important:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Auto-select
Exec=/usr/bin/xdg-open %U
Terminal=false
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true

"%U" will be filled in with the filename/url to be opened.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html

Also, as Grzegorz (#25) pointed out, there are two possible locations for (user-custom) "mimeapps.list"
~/.config/mimeapps.list
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

More information (much more):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications#MIME_types_and_desktop_entries

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mozilla
Bugs, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918019

Title:
  Firefox does not use default application to open binary files

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/918019/+subscriptions