When www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0 is built with -gnome, the applications tab under the preferences menu displays only a blank table, rather than having some default settings as it does with the gnome useflag. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0 with -gnome 2. Click Edit -> Preferences and select the Applications tab 3. You will find that the Content Types/Actions table is empty 4. Try adding a new application by clicking a filetype such as pdf, odt, etc, or a mailto: link, etc select an application and select "Do this automatically for files like this from now on". 5. Return to the Preferences Applications tab sa above. 6. The Content Types/Actions table remains empty, leaving no way to reconfigure these preferences. Actual Results: The Content Types/Actions table remains empty, leaving no way to reconfigure these preferences. Expected Results: When www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0 is built with -gnome, the Applications Preferences should preferably have some reasonable defaults selected. At the least, once a content type is encountered and configured, it should be editable from the Applications tab of the Preferences menu.
...under applications on the preferences menu when built with -gnome. When new actions are registered as the user encounters new content types, they are not available for editing in the preferences menu.
Did firefox 2.0 worked fine?
Firefox 2 provided this functionality under the content tab, in a section labeled File Types, the button Manage... pulls up a table of Extension/File Type/Action. This seems to work fine in www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14 with -gnome. However, this doesn't handle mailto: links and such, I am not sure how these are handled in Firefox 2.
I am seeing the same thing here with mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1. The applications tab displays an empty table. I have also set -gnome. Normally, you see at least the filetypes there that are handled by installed plugins (like Acrobat Reader). This works OK with Firefox 3.0 under Windows and also with Firefox 2.0 under Gentoo, just not with 3.0 under Gentoo. However, installed plugins show in "about:plugins" and seem to work OK (tested Acrobat Reader).
I also suffer from this bug. On this discussion: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=5129983 someone found this bug on mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409192
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Just want to add that you have to compile firefox AND xulrunner with "gnome" use flag to fix this problem.
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