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Since my update to Ubuntu Jammy (22.04) the Firefox "Opening " dialog that appears, when downloading/opening a file only shows a blank entry for the "Open with" option:

Firefox Open File Dialog (Open With)

Which configuration option controls how this drop down is populated? Is this a Firefox issue or could it be that something got messed up with my MIME settings in the system. The eog (Eye of Gnome) image viewer is installed and I can correctly open and view the file if I save it first.

This used to work until the recent upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04.

lanoxx
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This may be a bug with the snap version of Firefox shipped with Ubuntu 22.04. The workaround is to replace the snap version of Firefox with the apt version, e.g. from the Mozilla Team PPA.

One needs to pin the PPA version to higher priority. See How to install Firefox as a traditional deb package (without snap) in Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) for more details.

Archisman Panigrahi
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  • That solved it immediately. I can imagine that this is going to be a pretty controversial change. – lanoxx Apr 27 '22 at 18:47