Steps to reproduce: 1. Make sure your prefs are such as mozilla prompts you when you download a file with the "Open with/Save to disk" dialog. 2. Click "Choose app" to handle the particular file type you're trying to download -> You can only select classic apps in the subsequent dialog. I was unable to select for example, the carbon version of Stuffit Expander. Reproducible: Always

btw, the same thing happens when going to Preferences/Navigator/Helper Apps/Edit or New, then "choose app". On a good note, IE 5.1 is no better :-)

On a bad note, IE 5.1 will handle it just fine with the final release. I think the problem here is that you can't select application bundles - I can select carbon apps like BBEdit and Acrobat Reader and even Fizzilla, which are just distributed as plain executables. I would consider this to be a major issue, especially since most Mac OS X native apps are being distributed as packages.

Is this also why I'm seeing a failure of Fizilla to start Stuffit Expander from the file save dialog? In other words, I click on a .sit or similar file, Fizzilla prompts me to choose between "save file" or "Open with Stuffit Expander". If I choose "Open with Stuffit Expander" (the default), I just end up with Fizzilla's temporary file (randomstuff.sit) saved to my desktop. I'm a Mac Newbie, so I don't even know where these associations are set. (I know the finder keeps stuff like this in it's database, but I don't know how to look at/ modify that database)..

i'll take this one, but it relies on launchServices.h which isn't yet in our headers. We must move to newer headers for this to work.

filtering was actually turned off for fizzilla, this turns it back on again. also supports packages when we're showing all files (our wacky way of allowing apps to be chosen; the fact that this is lame is beyond the scope of this bug, others have been filed to change the API). needing r/sr

r=pchen

sr=sfraser

a=dbaron (on behalf of drivers)

landed

Okay, I can verify that I can choose all kinds of applications now with the download assistant, however they don't seem to actually launch after the download completes.. This has always seemed to be the case for me, is this the case for others? Should I open a new bug for that?

hrm, with the 2001.08.30.05-comm bits [i'm on 10.0.4], i still cannot select the carbon version of StuffIt Expander [see also bug 97676].

aha! i don't see this with the 2001.08.30.05 mozilla build, only with the commercial build. i'm gonna reopen this since it should be fixed in both trees. [but if you'd rather have this closed and a new one opened in bugscape, lemme know. :)] afaik, i think the application is supposed to open once download is complete. pink, steve et al., is that supposed to be the case? unfortunately, bug 97676 blocks me for opening the app itself, commercial or mozilla.

uh, it's the same dialog, right? how can commercial be different?

i can't get a build to download anything. something has horribly regressed, so i can't verify or deny that this wasn't fixed. what's up here?!

i did a commercial build and this worked fine for me.

well, waddya know. i can now select a carbonized app using 2001.09.04.08 commercial bits on os x. vrfy.