Re: firefox3{,.5} and external apps for various mime types

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:57:39 +1200
Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
>    firefox 2 used to work out what external application to offer to 
> launch for a given mime type (eg openoffice for application/msword) 
> using the information in /usr/pkg/share/applications/ via a call to a 
> function in a dynamically loaded libgnomevfs-2.so (if it exists).
> 
> In firefox3 and firefox3.5 this doesn't happen.  As far as I can see 
> its now trying to do the same thing via D-Bus calls but I don't speak 
> D-Bus well enough to work out what its actually trying to do and see 
> why its failing.
> 
> So is this working for anyone?  Any clues on how to track this down?
> 
> cheers
> mark

dbus is actually disabled in firefox's Makefile.
Remove the --disable-dbus and and include the dbus bl3.mk. If that
makes things work for you, I don't mind enabling it by default. I bet
dbus is already an implicit dependency from some other package anyway.

-Tobias