Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files

[alter_ego]

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 at fasolt.home.paeps.cx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FASOLT
>  i386
> 
> I'd appreciate any insights.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  - Philip
> 
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