Firefox tries to use "easytag" as file browser.

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hi,

if I open the list of downloaded files in firefox (down arrow on top
right), right click on a file on the list, select “open containing
folder”, I get “easytag” (an application to manage mp3 tags) instead of
any file browser.

This happened since I used easytag the other day, previously it worked
correctly.

I do not see where to change this back.

Using:


cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa | grep -i mozilla
mozilla-nspr-32bit-4.10-1.14.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-23.0-1.29.1.x86_64
mozilla-nspr-4.10-1.14.1.x86_64
mozilla-kde4-integration-0.6.4-2.1.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-21-2.5.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-devel-3.15.1-1.12.1.x86_64
ca-certificates-mozilla-1.85-3.1.1.noarch
MozillaThunderbird-17.0.8-61.21.2.x86_64
mozilla-nspr-devel-4.10-1.14.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-32bit-3.15.1-1.12.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-3.15.1-1.12.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-certs-32bit-3.15.1-1.12.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-certs-3.15.1-1.12.1.x86_64
cer@Telcontar:~>

oS 12.3, XFCE desktop.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Take a look at firefox-edit-preferences-applications
and find-out if you can change it to another application.

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On 2013-09-29 15:16, conram wrote:

> Take a look at firefox-edit-preferences-applications
> and find-out if you can change it to another application.

Easytag is not listed there at all.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Usually, Firefox saves all relevant changes.

Maybe you can search the “about:” pages for the string “Easytag”, esp. “about:config”, “about: plugins”, “about:addons” via “about:about”?

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On 2013-09-29 23:06, kasi042 wrote:
>
> Usually, Firefox saves all relevant changes.
>
> Maybe you can search the “about:” pages for the string “Easytag”, esp.
> “about:config”, “about: plugins”, “about:addons” via “about:about”?

Nothing in the firefox configuration anywhere points to easytag. I
scanned the entire .mozilla/ folder with grep.

The only references are in the places.sqlite because I have a page open
on the easytag site.

It must be the desktop who chooses to open files with easytag when
firefox asks.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Hi,
I’m not using easytag so I have no idea how it works, but maybe
worth looking to the configuration of easytag. there might be an
option somewhere to disable it running inside firefox

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On 2013-09-30 02:46, conram wrote:

> Hi,
> I’m not using easytag so I have no idea how it works, but maybe
> worth looking to the configuration of easytag. there might be an
> option somewhere to disable it running inside firefox

easytag is not a file browser, it can not work as such, and it has
nothing configurable related to firefox. I looked, just in case.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Hi,

Same openSUSE problem as yours with solution.
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/396038-easytag-taking-over.html

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On 2013-09-30 03:56, conram wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Same openSUSE problem as yours with solution.
> http://tinyurl.com/mlqqaql

Wow! Thanks! Yes, you are right, that old thread (2008) has the clue.

It is the file “/usr/share/applications/defaults.list” which contains a
bad entry:

x-directory/normal=easytag.desktop

which is surprising, because the file is dated Jun 8. No, wrong, it is a
symlink to “/var/cache/gio-2.0/gnome-defaults.list” which is dated Sep
29 15:24.

I was looking at “/etc/mime.types” instead.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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On 2013-09-30 04:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-09-30 03:56, conram wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Same openSUSE problem as yours with solution.
>> http://tinyurl.com/mlqqaql
>
> Wow! Thanks! Yes, you are right, that old thread (2008) has the clue.
>
>
> It is the file “/usr/share/applications/defaults.list” which contains a
> bad entry:
>
> x-directory/normal=easytag.desktop
>
> which is surprising, because the file is dated Jun 8. No, wrong, it is a
> symlink to “/var/cache/gio-2.0/gnome-defaults.list” which is dated Sep
> 29 15:24.
>
> I was looking at “/etc/mime.types” instead.

A restart of firefox did not work, probably I have to restart the session.

And next problem is finding out what modified the file, in order to find
whom to report the bug. easytag rpm, probably.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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On Mon 30 Sep 2013 02:38:06 AM CDT, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2013-09-30 04:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-09-30 03:56, conram wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Same openSUSE problem as yours with solution.
>> http://tinyurl.com/mlqqaql
>
> Wow! Thanks! Yes, you are right, that old thread (2008) has the clue.
>
>
> It is the file “/usr/share/applications/defaults.list” which contains
> a bad entry:
>
> x-directory/normal=easytag.desktop
>
> which is surprising, because the file is dated Jun 8. No, wrong, it
> is a symlink to “/var/cache/gio-2.0/gnome-defaults.list” which is
> dated Sep 29 15:24.
>
> I was looking at “/etc/mime.types” instead.

A restart of firefox did not work, probably I have to restart the
session.

And next problem is finding out what modified the file, in order to find
whom to report the bug. easytag rpm, probably.

It’s already fixed upstream, update pushed to GNOME:Apps

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On 2013-09-30 05:01, malcolmlewis wrote:

> It’s already fixed upstream, update pushed to GNOME:Apps

I found that the source of the problem is the easytag.desktop file, and
mine comes from packman.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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On Mon 30 Sep 2013 10:48:07 AM CDT, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2013-09-30 05:01, malcolmlewis wrote:

> It’s already fixed upstream, update pushed to GNOME:Apps

I found that the source of the problem is the easytag.desktop file, and
mine comes from packman.

Yes, and it was fixed in February with this commit;

Needs to be updated by the packman maintainer.

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