* Anders Boström ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "ED" == Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ED> * Anders Bostr?m ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Package: mozilla-firefox > >> Version: 1.0+dfsg.1-2 > >> Severity: normal > >> > >> The download of a file just hangs if the program associated with the > >> file type is missing. No error message, it just hangs. > >> > >> An error message and a dialog to select application would be good > >> behavior. > > ED> Can you give me a reproduction recipe? > > In a shell: > > # touch /tmp/foo > # chmod +x /tmp/foo > > Then edit an association to a filetype (for an exmple ZIP) in firefox > to open with /tmp/foo . Press OK.
Perhaps a silly question coming from me, but how did you edit the association? It wasn't immediately obvious to me. > In a shell: > > # rm /tmp/foo > > Then click on a link to a file of type ZIP in firefox => problem. > > The real-world case of this is when you run firefox on several > computers with the same home-directory (using NFS) and when some > application (for an example mplayer) is installed on one computer but > not on all other. > > / Anders -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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