[SOLVED] Firefox - opening images.

[zugunder]

Hi,
I am using the 10.0.2 from testing, so probably I should have address bugzilla directly... but just in case someone else has faced the same problem.
If I download an image (.jpeg or .png for example) via Firefox, choose it in the "Downloads" pop-up window and select "Open" it is opened in Wine Internet Explorer. I have Gwenview as a default image viewer and it works fine from Dolphin, etc.
Do you have any idea what the problem (with settings) it might be?
Thank you.

[doktor5000]

New Firefox and Thunderbird don't read those settings, because the Gnome library they use for this is buggy:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4461
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669936

You should still be able to select "Open with" from that dropdown list and select the application you want it
to open with and Firefox/Thunderbird should respect and remember that setting. Works here.

[zugunder]

You should still be able to select "Open with" from that dropdown list and select the application you want it
to open with and Firefox/Thunderbird should respect and remember that setting. Works here.

I do not see any "Open with" options here, sorry...

[doktor5000]

Ah, my fault, i misread your explanation and so thought you meant before download.
But as i said, this comes from gio, which doesn't properly read/return the associated application, see the bug reports about that.

But you could still choose "Open containing folder" and open it from the file manager as usual.

[zugunder]

OK, got it, so that is what I am doing.
Thank you.

[KIAaze]

I know this is now marked as solved, but I found a better solution than "opening the containing folder":

1) First to actually get the folder opening to work: Associate "File" with "/usr/bin/xdg-open" in the firefox preferences:
edit->preferences->applications
file->Use xdg-open
This also fixes the opening of .zip files for examples. Before nothing happened when I double-clicked on them, now they open with Ark.

2) Remove "Wine Internet Explorer" from the files associated with gif,jpg,etc in
System settings->File associations

I'm using Kubuntu 12.04, but I hope this might help others too.

[I also did "rm ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" before that, but it didn't work directly. Not sure if it was necessary.]