[Bug 291029] [NEW] Firefox fails to open html files launched from a smb path in Nautilus

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I've just upgraded from hardy to intrepid.  I have a saved bookmark to a
samba share which I open in Nautilus by selecting it from the Places
menu in the main Ubuntu menu.  Nautilus then displays the path and all
its files/directories as expected.  If I double click a .html file from
amongst these files my running copy of Firefox opens a new blank tab and
does nothing else.  Firefox's location bar is blank, and no contents are
displayed.  If I right-click the file and select open with gvim or
gedit, it opens correctly.   If I copy the very same file to my desktop
and double-click it there, Firefox opens it correctly.

This functionality worked with hardy but no longer works in intrepid.

It may be related that if I try and open the file in OpenOffice, I am
prompted for authentication.  This was also the case with hardy, but
opening in Firefox always used to work without any prompt.

lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My entire distribution is up to date as of Thu Oct 30 10:35:26 GMT 2008.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Firefox fails to open html files launched from a smb path in Nautilus
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/291029
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