Firefox 2.0 doesn't open downloaded files

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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 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.

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

> 
> 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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