User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1 In the download dialog for the above URL, I chose to Open With... and then chose /usr/bin/kate. However, kate is never started, and strace -f -e trace=process proves it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. strace -f -e trace=process firefox 2. Go to URL above 3. Choose Open 4. Choose /usr/bin/kate in the file selector 5. Press OK Actual Results: Nothing. No evidence of process starting in strace log, either. Expected Results: /usr/bin/kate should be executed

Does the download finish? Is this just with kate or also with other applications.

(In reply to comment #1) > Does the download finish? No. It gets stuck at "Starting...". But the browser remains reponsive? > Is this just with kate or also with other > applications. I tried also with /usr/bin/gedit - same result. As I said, the program is not even launched. Bug still exists in firefox 1.0.2.

(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Does the download finish? > No. It gets stuck at "Starting...". But the browser remains reponsive? I may be rushing my fences, but do you think that the reason that the application is not started is because the download is not done. I am guessing that Firefox downloads the file to a particular location and then starts the application. If you think that this might be case, does your STRACE give any clue as to the point at which the failure occurs?

In Firefox 1.5 the same steps cause a different error to occur, bug 230153. So I'm marking it a dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230153 ***