Bug 189086

Summary: Firefox is not using extensions, confusing MIME types for others
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano.suarezalvarez+bugzilla>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2006-04-15 20:18:58 UTC
Description of problem:

Firefox saves temporary files for external apps to handle without an extension,
and gnomevfs (and everything that uses that...) to mistakenly guess the mime
type is application/octet-stream.

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

Go to <http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0409509>, and click on the PDF link.
Evince will pop up, and immediately complain that it does not know what to do
with application/octet-stream

Comment 1 Nicholas Miell 2006-04-19 20:53:46 UTC
Firefox isn't the problem.

The problem is that Evince has been lobotomized and requires GNOME VFS to
identify the file type for it before it'll open it.

GNOME VFS can't or won't identify PDF files without a .pdf extension, so they
get the default type of application/octet-stream and Evince chokes on the file.

Comment 2 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-08 09:44:11 UTC
This is a dupe of bug #193582 and/or bug #186241. 

As comment #1 suggests, file magic isn't being recognised by gnome-vfs at all
for *any* files (see bug #193582 comment #2).

Comment 3 Alex Lancaster 2006-06-23 08:02:42 UTC
Underlying cause appears to be: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6577

Comment 4 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2006-06-27 09:09:42 UTC
This seems to have been fixed in the last shared-mime-info update.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2007-07-18 17:31:23 UTC
Fedora Core 5 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the
updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora Core 6, or
Fedora 7, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please
let us know in this bug report.  If after a month's time we have not heard back
from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX.

Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter.

Thanks in advance.


Comment 6 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2007-07-19 00:11:50 UTC
As I said a while ago,this got fixed by an update in the shared mime info db,
AFAICS.