Workaround for an annoying Firefox "feature" in *nix

[Howard Gibson]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:49:19 -0400
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>   In the old days, we had to manually type in the program name to use
> for "helper applications".  Nowadays, Windows and Mac standards seem to
> have taken over.  Big brother knows what good for you, and you can only
> use an annoying file-picker dialogue.  What's even worse is that the
> dialog *FORCIBLY DE-REFERENCES SYMLINKS*.  I download a specific CSV
> file from the web regularly with Firefox.  When I first tried
> downloading it, I was asked which program to use.  I pointed the file
> picker at /usr/bin/gnumeric which was a symlink that pointed to
> /usr/bin/gnumeric-1.8.3  But because Firefox is so bleeping "user
> friendly", it de-referenced the symlink to /usr/bin/gnumeric-1.8.3

Walter,

   When I reference CSV files, I point firefox at /usr/bin/ooffice.  This works fine.  Could this be a problem with symbolic links?

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