Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:12:58 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: alter_ego <alter_ego@icmail.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files Message-ID: <1162631578.1096.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <7171153.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <20061025174128.GR53740@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> <7171153.post@talk.nabble.com>
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--=-EmhLxJyZRAa37XYaOj/l Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 19:00 -0800, alter_ego wrote: > 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 help= er > apps don't work. >=20 > Mine is a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p7 #0, and I don't use gnome either. >=20 > I would appreciate any suggestion on how to fix this problem. I could reproduce this, so I rebuilt Firefox with debugging support, then the problem went away. So I rebuilt again without debugging support, and now I can no longer reproduce. You might try rebuilding Firefox with debugging and logging enabled. If you can reproduce, check the console for any relevant errors. Joe >=20 > Thanks, > AE >=20 >=20 >=20 > Philip Paeps wrote: > >=20 > > 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 o= f > > opening files I download. > >=20 > > For instance, I have in my .mailcap file that I want PDF files opened w= ith > > 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 grok= s > > my > > .mailcap file. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > When I tell firefox to open a file with a script that just does a 'touc= h' > > of a > > file in /tmp, for example, I don't see a file created in /tmp. > >=20 > > Any idea what I might be missing or how I would go about debugging this= ?=20 > > I > > spent the night looking at ktrace output and it's making me go blind. := -o > >=20 > > Note that I do not use gnome. A list of packages on my system is here: > >=20 > > <http://www.paeps.cx/~philip/20061025-ff-pkg_info>; > >=20 > > I am using -CURRENT from fairly recently: > >=20 > > FreeBSD fasolt.home.paeps.cx 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Tue O= ct > > 10 > > 14:01:36 CEST 2006 =20 > > philip@fasolt.home.paeps.cx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FASOLT > > i386 > >=20 > > I'd appreciate any insights. > >=20 > > Thanks! > >=20 > > - Philip > >=20 > > --=20 > > Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I a= m > > philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list= . > >=20 > > "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= " > >=20 > >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-EmhLxJyZRAa37XYaOj/l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFTFmab2iPiv4Uz4cRArf/AJ9cvemgEA9azyb8/seuQoXFgee+TgCdFR1c NIO6k5mkkyHEfmpuwDU1z1Q= =LAoP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-EmhLxJyZRAa37XYaOj/l--
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