Interesting. I'm starting to get a clearer idea of how FF handles file associations now and it seems a bit odd. Here's how I understand it currently; for links on the web they're handled by FF's own list of actions (ask, download, or launch in this program), for the files already on the download list they're supposed to be 'what the OS would do' if you launched that file from the desktop. But FF needs the firefox-gnome-support package to know what gnome would do.. and otherwise the default action seems to be poorly defined. Why OpenOffice is a bit of a mystery still? Anyone else got a bit more insight on this? 2009/9/15 Chakat Sandwalker <sandwalker(a)gmail.com>:
They're perfectly fine; it's just opening files from Firefox's Download Manager that has the problem. This is Firefox 3.5.2 (Shiretoko), by the way.
Sandy
Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
What happens when you open them off the desktop?
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