Firefox File handling in KDE problem [SOLVED]

Recently I've noticed that Firefox doesn't give me a default app to open a file anymore. I mean, if I click on a PDF file, it used to open a dialog offering me to open it with kpdf (default). Now that same dialog just offers me to browse for the application I want to open the file with, so I have to manually browse to /opt/kde/bin/kpdf each and every time ! And the same with other file types. Does anybody else experience this?
You can test it clicking on this link:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
EDIT: I think this is related to this bug, since my /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types are empty except for java entry:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6801
EDIT2: No, it doesn't have anything to do with that bug. It should work without /etc/mailcap.
Last edited by Bogart (2007-05-22 22:34:50)

Ok, I found the problem.
In order to have Firefox offering you the default application to open a certain file, you need to install libgnome !
I removed bluefish some days ago with its dependencies and since then it stopped working.
libgnome depends on gnome-mime-data, gconf, gnome-vfs and libbonobo, but none of these are enough to make Firefox work correctly. It really needs libgnome.
Not sure if it would be a good idea to put these dependencies on Firefox. Probably not. Each one should decide if it's worth or not. Maybe some info would be useful, though.

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