[SOLVED] Firefox open containing folder after download

I get a box to choose application is this normal behavior? 14.2 and I think the same thing happens on current.

I guess I could just choose file manager or something. Never had it do this before.

What Desktop Environment/Windows Manager are you using? It might be something specific to that program.

KDE 14.2 I just checked on current and it works as expected. I had something similar happen before where it tried to open a music player. It works as root but not as a user. Permissions of some type?

Depends on what has registered org.freedesktop.FileManager1 dbus service.
Some programs daemonize on session start, recent versions of Thunar is one such and so will always be the default. Otherwise it will depend on what programs are running, whether they register org.freedesktop.FileManager1 and what is in /usr/share/dbus-1/services (grep -l org.freedesktop.FileManager1 /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*). qdbus and qdbus-qt5 if you have them can be useful in tracking things down.

hth

OK I have no idea what is going on here, but I just used the popup to choose dolphin and it works as expected. Never had to do that before. It worked correctly for root.

Is it possible that your Preference has changed for what to do with downloads? If one selects "Ask Me" instead of "~/Downloads" all downloads will query. If it only asks when there isn't an assigned application to handle multimedia files, that's a different situation/preference.

No this was on all downloads. It was set to drop everything in /home/user/Downloads. I had just built this 14.2 system a few weeks ago because current was slowing me down when something breaks after updates. So this was a fresh install with all updates to 14.2 applied.

I have never had FireFox ask me to select a program to open containing folders in the past. No idea what caused that.