Firefox - gedit is the best!

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 28.10.2013 21:36, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 28.10.2013 21:30, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
>> On 28.10.2013 16:35, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>> Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>>>> Why, Firefox on Fedora 19 wants to open all different sort of files of
>>>> well known types with gedit? It's ridiculous that torrent files, zip and
>>>> gz archives and even doc file are suggested to be opened with gedit.
>>>>
>>>> Creating new FF profile doesn't resolve this issue. Is it that hard to
>>>> recognize file type and open it with correct application?
>>>>
>>>> Now, you can slaughter me but Firefox on Windows suggests apps correctly
>>>> so it's more likely Fedora related bug.
>>>>
>>>> Any way to fix it?
>>>
>>> Open Firefox Preferences. Click on "Applications".
>>
>> Is it the best you can do? If you don't know how to help, please don't
>> write such useless responses.
>>
>> Part of my FF config regarding file associacion is genuine and was never
>> modified. I know I can change this or that, but appropriate entries are
>> there ane still don't work correctly.
>>
>> It happens only for some servers and files 
> 
> and *why* did you *not* state this in your original post?

because for me it was obvious that when I wrote that despite I have
CLEAN new profile FF still wants to open doc in gedit. I'll be more
precise next time.

> 
>> so I guess it might be related to wrong headres but I'm not sure
> 
> so test it to be sure and if it are wrong Content-Type headers
> bale the server-admin or fool who wrote a web-application sending
> wrong headers and in that case the whole thread should not have
> been started at all
> 
> 

I started this thread here to see if anybody else is suffering from this
problem. I don't know what is the cause of my problem and if I'm the
only person affected.

Opening doc and gz files with correct app is something that should work
on desktop system without much configuration.



Mateusz Marzantowicz