Firefox 3.5 doesn't know which applications to use

[MountainX]

I am running Jaunty. I installed Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko) from the Ubuntu repositories. It works fine except for the file associations. When I download a file, neither "open" nor "open containing folder" work. They both tell me to "choose an application", and I do not know how to do that.

Is there a way to pull over the prior Firefox application associations?

Thanks

[MickS]

I have the same problem, I Seem to remember I had it before but can't remember what I did. Only said that to subscribe to the thread.

Mick

[MountainX]

bumping

[MountainX]

I have been searching Google and these forums and I cannot find a solution. I suspect I'm searching with the wrong terms (e.g. "applications" is too broad). Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm sure this has been solved - I just can't find the solution. Thanks.

[MickS]

I have been having a quick look on the Mozilla support forum and as far as I can make out it has been disabled as a security measure, I might be wrong though.


Mick

[MountainX]

I have been having a quick look on the Mozilla support forum and as far as I can make out it has been disabled as a security measure, I might be wrong though.


Mick

Thanks, but there is nothing that is disabled. It is simply that the settings are wrong. What I need to do is "choose an application" that will open locations (directories). I also need to fix the same issue for opening downloaded files. I need some help doing this. Thanks.

[MountainX]

No solution yet.

I have looked at these related threads -- found no solution yet:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1397225
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=762326
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum.php?locale=ca&forumId=1&comments_threshold=0&thread_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&comments_per_page=20&time_control=1209600&poster=&issue_solved=&reply_state=&comments_offset=60
http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox-3.5+linux+or+ubuntu++%22choose+an+application%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

[MountainX]

There is not a single good native browser for Ubuntu (http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty) (even wine is better (http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox)). As bad as Firefox 3.0 sucks, I want to at least be able to run Firefox 3.5 without waiting until October.

[MountainX]

Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko) totally sucks! I just removed it completely. I'm angry.

[MountainX]

Swiftweasel (http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/) is good! No problems, faster than other builds and better than Swiftfox because I'm on AMD64 and Swiftweasel supports the proper flash on that platform.

[nonanano]

Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko) totally sucks! I just removed it completely. I'm angry.

Ditto. I feel the 3.5 release was badly handled and it seems barely tested.


Swiftweasel (http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/) is good! No problems, faster than other builds and better than Swiftfox because I'm on AMD64 and Swiftweasel supports the proper flash on that platform.

Thanks :) I will try that too. :)

[dixelpixel]

Similar problem. I have just installed Jaunty. Now I am trying to 'teach' Firefox to use Ktorrent as default for BitTorrent files, but in the menu that pops up from Firefox' settings, I just cannot locate Ktorrent as an application in my system. What is the simple way to access my various applictions?