Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:00:50 -0800 (PST) From: alter_ego <alter_ego@icmail.net> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files Message-ID: <7171153.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20061025174128.GR53740@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> References: <20061025174128.GR53740@fasolt.home.paeps.cx>
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Firefox 2 is exhibiting exactly the same behaviour for me. I did a portupgrade yesterday, Firefox updated from 1.5.0.7 to 2 and now the helper apps don't work. Mine is a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0, and I don't use gnome either. I would appreciate any suggestion on how to fix this problem. Thanks, AE Philip Paeps wrote: > > I've compiled Firefox 2.0 from marcuscom earlier this week. It appears to > work great, except for the minor (but to me fairly important) feature of > opening files I download. > > For instance, I have in my .mailcap file that I want PDF files opened with > xpdf. I pointy-click a PDF file and I get a nice box offering to save it > somewhere or open it with xpdf. So far so good, Firefox 2.0 still groks > my > .mailcap file. > > However, it just puts the PDF file I pointy-clicked in /tmp and doesn't > fire > up xpdf for me to look at it. So I need to do that myself. That gets > boring > very quickly. > > I think it is just refusing to spawn any external application. I also use > the > Greasemonkey extension and have pointed the 'editor' of user scripts to a > script that fires up xterm -e vi. This worked fine in Firefox 1.5.0.7 but > now > no longer works. > > When I tell firefox to open a file with a script that just does a 'touch' > of a > file in /tmp, for example, I don't see a file created in /tmp. > > Any idea what I might be missing or how I would go about debugging this? > I > spent the night looking at ktrace output and it's making me go blind. :-o > > Note that I do not use gnome. A list of packages on my system is here: > > <http://www.paeps.cx/~philip/20061025-ff-pkg_info>; > > I am using -CURRENT from fairly recently: > > FreeBSD fasolt.home.paeps.cx 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Tue Oct > 10 > 14:01:36 CEST 2006 > philip@fasolt.home.paeps.cx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FASOLT > i386 > > I'd appreciate any insights. > > Thanks! > > - Philip > > -- > Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am > philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. > > "Why's it called Ming?" said the Archchancellor, on cue. The > Bursar tapped the pot. It went *ming*. > -- Discworld archeology revealed > (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Firefox-2.0-doesn%27t-open-downloaded-files-tf2509142.html#a7171153 Sent from the freebsd-gnome mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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