Comment 76 for bug 18995

Timothy,

Thanks for the concern. I've moved on from this issue, but good luck to
anyone trying to resolve it.

Chrome solves my needs AND opens PDFs out of the box on all the platforms I
am interested in.

kind regards
Eivind Throndsen

2011/7/27 Timothy Fridey <email address hidden>

> It looks to me like the issue here is that the Mozilla team in the past
> was unwilling to implement anything that wasn't cross platform. I
> haven't worked with GTK myself but it looks like the new version 3.0
> contains features that may just finally resolve this issue.
>
> See: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/GtkAppChooser.html
>
> and
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/GtkAppChooserDialog.html
>
> Now the problem is convincing the Mozilla to upgrade to the new API (I
> would expect this to be the big challenge here) and use this new
> feature.
>
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>
> Title:
> [MASTER] "Open With" dialog not user-friendly
>
> Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
> Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Confirmed
> Status in NULL Project:
> Invalid
> Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu:
> Won't Fix
> Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “mozilla-thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When choosing to open a file in Firefox, an "Open With" dialog appears.
> You can choose to save the file or open it with a program from the list.
> However, if the desired program to open the file with is NOT listed, the
> user
> must navigate the filesystem to /usr/bin (or wherever) and select the
> appropriate program.
>
> A more user-friendly way would be to list all of the known programs
> installed
> that are available to open files with, and then have an "Other..." or
> "Advanced..." button for the user who would rather navigate the
> filesystem.
>
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