Closed Bug 1567231 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Choosing Firefox as Open With.. for a file type and saving the setting crashes FF

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

68 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215554

People

(Reporter: simonmartens, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

LINUX:

  1. Open FF Settings, browse to Applications
  2. Search for a file type e.g. PDF
  3. Set Firefox as application to handle the file type (NOT: Preview in Firefox)
  4. Open a file of chosen file type from file browser or Internet

OR

  1. Open a file from internet, so that the "Open With" dialog appears
  2. Choose Firefox via Open With and check "Do this automatically...", confirm

WINDOWS:

  1. Choose FF as default app for e.g. .pdf-Files
  2. In Settings->Applications search for e.g. PDF
  3. Set TWINUI (default app) to handle file type
  4. Open a file of chosen file type from file browser or Internet

OR via "Open With.."-Dialoge, see above

Actual results:

Firefox opens a lot of tabs containing the specified file and has to be forcefully quit to abort the opening.

Expected results:

Firefox opens one tab or one window containing the file

Component: Untriaged → File Handling
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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