Bug 361339

Summary:	No file type icons in Firefox anymore since last update
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Janek Bevendorff <bevendorffjanek>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Janek Bevendorff 2011-03-30 17:55:54 UTC

Hi,

Since the last update Firefox doesn't show icons for downloaded files anymore. I'm unsure whether this is a Gentoo specific bug or rather a general Firefox bug, so I first try it here.
When I download files, Firefox still recognizes the correct MIME type and also the default application, so it is NOT a problem with file associations in general. However, there is no icon anymore, neither in the download options dialog, which appears when I click a link to a download file, nor in the downloads list. The space where this icon should appear is now empty. This didn't happen in Firefox Beta or RC.
I have already tried creating a new profile and completely unemerging and reemerging Firefox; no success. Then I reverted back to Firefox 3.6 and there the icons showed up again but as soon as I upgraded to Firefox 4.0 the problem returned.
I once had such problems with some release of Firefox 3 (or 3.5/3.6, I don't know anymore) but that's long ago and there it was a general issue with file associations. The problem fixed itself some time, so I don't know what caused it.

By the way, Thunderbird 3.3 has the same issues, so it might be a problem with the Xulrunner package or some other code they share.

Using =www-client/firefox-4.0-r2 (from official repository, not from mozilla overlay) on KDE 4.6, no problems with file/folder icons in general (other GTK programs work nicely).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I have no idea, just try.

Comment 1 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-31 12:32:07 UTC

This might be due to our permanent disabling of gnome-vfs support in favour of gio.

Comment 2 Janek Bevendorff 2011-03-31 14:29:03 UTC

Would you be able to fix it?

Comment 3 Janek Bevendorff 2011-03-31 15:09:50 UTC

Hmm. I just created a local overlay for xulrunner and firefox where I removed the sed line. However, that didn't change anything.

Comment 4 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2012-12-15 19:23:17 UTC

Gio is the standard, upstream does not care about icons for downloads anymore.