Comment 85 for bug 18995

Created attachment 373282
Removes file association mechanism of firefox and use xdg-open instead

Hi,

  I've made a small patch in order to progress on this issue. It removes Firefox file system associations and forces use of xdg-open. I do not think this patch is complete since it's not cross-platform, but I really think it's a good step in order to solve this problem.
  There's already a file association mechanism on a Linux Desktop environments (Gnome, Kde, Xfce, Lxde, etc, etc). xdg-open is a simple way to use it. It simplifies lifes of users, which do not have to choose their preferred software twice, it simplifies lifes of integrators, which do not have to choose the default for their distributions twice and it simplifies source code of Firefox : there's no more need to get a file association mechanism compatible with all Linux Desktop environment.

  I don't know who will be a good "requestee" to ask for a review of this patch, so I've left the field empty.

Regards,