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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.

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.

doktor5000 wrote: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...

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.

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

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.]