Chromium Browser

Open Folder broken

Asked by nabilalk

I use Chromium as my default web browser and Thunar as my default file manager. When I download a file using Chromium and click on Open Folder, nothing happens. How can I get Chromium to use Thunar to open up the Download folder? Thanks.

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Ubuntu (Karmic)
Chromium version 4.0.306.0
Thunar version 1.0.1

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Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium) said : 		#1

Chrome uses xdg-open to open the folder. xdg-open exists to try to solve the problem of different desktop environments (for example, for KDE users it uses Konqueror). I don't know much about Thunar but it seems like you could make those two work together. Perhaps try:
1) xdg-open /tmp
2) if that doesn't work, ask the Thunar devs why not?

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nabilalk (nabilalk) said : 		#2

@Evan Martin:Hi, thanks for your response. What do you mean by "try: xdg-open /tmp"?

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Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium) said : 		#3

Run that command from a terminal, and see what happens. Does it open /tmp in Thunar? Or does it do something else?

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nabilalk (nabilalk) said : 		#4

nka@nka-toshiba:~$ xdg-open /tmp
Warning: unknown mime-type for "/tmp" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Error: no "view" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream"

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Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium) said : 		#5

Can you open a bug on xdg-open about that, then?
(On my Gnome system, xdg-open /tmp opens the Gnome file browser.)

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nabilalk (nabilalk) said : 		#6

There seems to be a bug on this already: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19987

Apparently I'm not the only one with the problem. I should clarify that I am using Ubuntu with CrunchBang linux and Openbox instead of Gnome. Perhaps that is part of the problem. However, several people have said that Google Chrome does not have the same issue. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/52885/#p52885

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Evan Martin (Chromium) (evan-chromium) said : 		#7

Good find! I linked this to the Ubuntu bug that is triggering your problem.

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