[Bug 123044] Re: Firefox calls external helper application without options

[Erik Forsberg]

It doesn't happen with galeon (2.0.2-4ubuntu1). I tried konqueror, but
nautilus-cd-burner doesn't appears as a choice, and none of the
available alternatives have an Exec-line (in their .desktop file) where
"%f" should be replace by the filename. Haven't tried epiphany.

The bug can be reproduced on ubuntu just as in the Fedora bug. To make
sure www.cendio.com was not the problem, I also tried downloading a
debian businesscard ISO, getting the same behaviour. So, in detail,
here's another way to reproduce:

1. Start firefox.

2. Visit http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/

3. Click on debian-40r0-i386-businesscard.iso

4. Select "open with", "nautilus-cd-burner"

5. Click OK.

6. Download file and then notice the error message from nautilus-cd-
burner - "unable to create CD/DVD - no files were selected".

7. In the process list (ps -ef), notice that nautilus-cd-burner is run
without the --source-iso argument. It should get an --source-iso
argument if firefox parsed the .desktop file correctly.

Please note that nautilus-cd-burner is just an example application used
to trigger the behaviour. Any helper application that requires an option
to accept a filename will fail with firefox.

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Firefox calls external helper application without options
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123044
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