[SOLVED] Firefox "open folder" does nothing

moisespedro · 12-31-2013, 12:49 AM

Everything was working fine and all out of the sudden it stopped working. When I click "open folder" on a downloaded file nothing happens.

kingbeowulf · 12-31-2013, 02:15 AM

There are a bunch of solutions on LQ and elsewhere. FF losing the file manager association is a bug | feature. Here is a quick and dirty trick. Find ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and edit to add or modify the line:

Code:

inode/directory=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;

In this case, Thunar will be used, or if not found, then use Dolphin.

Normally you would use one of the mime update utilities, but I am too lazy to figure that out.

You can also try in "Edit - Preferences - Applications" to set "file" to "/usr/bin/Thunar" or whichever file manager you prefer.

moisespedro · 12-31-2013, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingbeowulf

There are a bunch of solutions on LQ and elsewhere. FF losing the file manager association is a bug | feature. Here is a quick and dirty trick. Find ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and edit to add or modify the line:

Code:

inode/directory=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop;kde4-dolphin.desktop;

In this case, Thunar will be used, or if not found, then use Dolphin.

Normally you would use one of the mime update utilities, but I am too lazy to figure that out.

You can also try in "Edit - Preferences - Applications" to set "file" to "/usr/bin/Thunar" or whichever file manager you prefer.

It worked, thanks.