User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 In Epiphany (a GTK navigator designed for GNOME), when you choose to view the selected image from context menu option, that image is displayed in the default GNOME image viewer (most of the time Eye of GNOME) In Firefox (Firefox 3 beta 3 in Ubuntu Hardy alpha 6 for instance), that image is displayed within the navigator over a blank page which is useless Selecting a picture to view it should open that picture in default GNOME image viewer Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: image is displayed within the navigator over a blank page which is quite useless Expected Results: Selecting a picture to view it should open that picture in default GNOME image viewer for better integration

Maybe this bug is related (but not duplicate) : Bug 296443 – Mozilla should follow shared mime freedesktop specs (determining MIME type of a file and the default app for it)

Is this still a problem on 3.0 final? Im not sure it seems that bug is a more general bug about intergration.

Yes, the image opens up in Firefox over a blank page. It does not attempt to open a separate application. This is how Firefox behaves on Windows as well, to my recollection, and I assume on all other platforms. It seems quite natural to me -- I don't expect choosing to view the image to open up a new application. Is that how any other browser than Epiphany works?

I thought there was a config option you can change in about:config, atleast as a work around but if there is maybe its more Ubuntu bug since we can build with it enabled. I would need confirmation on that though, I'm starting a very sleepless and busy day but i will check email most of the day, If you find it please let me know. I havent gotten an answer from Alexander yet but hes busy at this time as well

Simetrical : you must not compare Windows with MacOS or GNOME since they don't have the same level of integration and therefore user experience is not the same. I was a windows user and i now am a GNOME user and, like GNOME users, i expect that "display the picture" option launches the default image viewer

Launchpad bug on this is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/195105

(In reply to comment #5) > Simetrical : you must not compare Windows with MacOS or GNOME since they don't > have the same level of integration and therefore user experience is not the > same. > I was a windows user and i now am a GNOME user and, like GNOME users, i expect > that "display the picture" option launches the default image viewer Well, I'm also a GNOME user, and I don't expect that. I would be fairly annoyed if it worked that way, in fact. Is this in the HIG anywhere, or is it just your opinion that GNOME apps should work this way? I don't see why Mozilla should be inconsistent cross-platform unless there's a demonstrable platform-specific convention that requires it.

This bug is over 10 years old. I am using Linux Mint 19 (which has Gnome bindings). In the nightly build -- right clicking on an image and bringing up the context menu then selecting `View Image` just opens the image from the source centered in a web page. No image viewers are invoked. This in my opinion is expected behavior -- Chrome for instance doesn't have a 'view image' context menu. The closest is `Open image in new tab'. If you want to view the image in an external app then download the image and open it in the app of your choice. I came here looking for bugs to fix. This is not really a bug and should be closed.