From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 BuildID: 2002020411 If I click on a link to a document type that Mozilla doesn't know about, it pops up a dialog that has two choices: "Open using an application" "Save this file to disk" When choosing an application, Mozilla pops up a file dialog and insists that one find the application executable file. This is so in the preferences -> Helper application dialogs too. But in NS 4.x one could just enter the name of an application and NS4.x would use the one one has in the PATH. This is much more preferable, since if I wich to change versions of some application, I just change the PATH. With Mozilla I have to reconfigure all helper applications everytime I happen to move them. This bug is also present in Linux and Solaris. It is more painful to have this behaviour under Linux and Solaris, since the file dialog is not very user friendly there and a pain to use. Please reinstate the NS4.x behaviour. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on any link to a document Mozilla cant handle. 2. Choose "Open using an application" and "Choose..." 3. Try just to enter an application in your PATH Actual Results: The file dialog does not close, and refuses to accept anything but actual files. Expected Results: Mozilla should accept the application name as written, just as NS4.x does.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56662 ***

See also bug 82860. I have no idea whether OSX uses the XP filepicker, however, so I don't know whether that applies.

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