Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:27:42 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: gecko@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 226837] www/firefox: removing mimeTypes.rdf, handlers.json has no effect; reset core dumps Message-ID: <bug-226837-21738@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D226837 Bug ID: 226837 Summary: www/firefox: removing mimeTypes.rdf, handlers.json has no effect; reset core dumps Product: Ports & Packages Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: Individual Port(s) Assignee: gecko@FreeBSD.org Reporter: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Flags: maintainer-feedback?(gecko@FreeBSD.org) Assignee: gecko@FreeBSD.org Clicking a link to load a pdf file can bring up a dialog asking whether to = save the file or open it with a particular program. The last option under the "Open With" dropdown is "Other...". If you click= on "Other...", the "Choose Helper Application" dialog shows recommended progra= ms with an option to "View all Applications". If the list of applications is hosed, the recommended procedure is to remov= e / rename mimeTypes.rdb (some mention is also made about removing handlers.jso= n) and then restarting. Removing both of these files had no effect. Upon restart, no new mimeTypes.rdf was created. A new handlers.json was created with many fewer entries, but the "View all Applications" dialog sti= ll had the same trash in it. In my case, not all applications were shown (in particular, xpdf was missin= g), and some are shown multiple times with differing labels or the same label.= =20 Many applications are shown which are not listed in the set of helper applications shown in Preferences/General and are not even on this machine. I have no idea where the list of applications is coming from; clearly not t= he applications in the firefox preferences. It looks / feels like it is being retrieved from a firefox database or some other process. When all else fails, the recommended procedure is to "Reset Firefox". =20 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-sett= ings Attempting to do a reset caused firefox to crash and then start again; there was a .core file with the right timestamp in the home directory. The profile had been moved to a newly created ~/Desktop directory under the name "Old Firefox Data". When firefox restarted, it had a new profile with restored user data. There was no mimeTypes.rdf file; there was a new handlers.json. The set of helper applications in preferences was minimal: rc, ircs, mailto, Podcast, PDF, Video Podcast, Web Feed, and webcal I don't know if this is the proper set or not. In any case, going to a site with a pdf and trying to choose a different application still shows the old set of garbled stuff. A web site which worked to trigger this for me was: http://www.abbottinvestor.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=3D94004&p=3Dirol-proxy Go to the bottom of the page and click on "2018 PROXY STATEMENT" but any pdf load will probably work if preferences say to ask. I am running Xfce4; the dialog contains things like: "A Wine application" (don't have wine anymore, did long ago) "Audacity" "Create Launcher on the panel" "File Manager" "Firefox" "Firefox Web Browser" "gimp" "GLiv Image Viewer" (twice) "hh" ... "Microsoft Access for Windows" (a boatload of them; not on this machine) "Microsoft Excel for Windows" (a boatload of them; not on this machine) etc My ports were completely rebuilt in a consistent manner about a week ago. 10.3-RELEASE-p24 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p24 #0: Wed Nov 15 04:57:40 UTC 2017= =20=20=20=20 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/s ys/GENERIC amd64 --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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