suddenly files open in browser..."index of files" view

Asked by clombard

OMG! this has to be the most annoying aspect of Ubuntu 10.10...!
Today my computer woke up and said "lets open all the computer files in Mozilla Firefox as a list of "index of files"
Obviously NOT wanted. If I uninstall Mozilla all my files open normally.
Why suddenly is Mozilla Firefox opening my files in a broswer as a list...?
This has to be a simple setting somewhere...Please help...!
Thank you.

Looks like below:

ex. Index of file:///home/charles/

Up to higher level directory

Show hidden objects

   Name
    Size
    Last Modified

 .DownloadManager

  09/19/2009
  01:05:59 PM

 File:.ICEauthority
  151 KB
  02/22/2011
  10:25:52 AM

 .Skype

  02/22/2011
  02:29:27 PM

 .adobe

  03/26/2010
  02:19:11 PM

 .amsn

  01/30/2011
  03:40:08 PM

 File:.bash_history
  6 KB
  02/21/2011
  09:28:11 PM

 File:.bash_logout
  1 KB
  04/08/2009
  08:36:35 PM

 File:.bashrc
  4 KB
  04/08/2009
  08:36:35 PM

 File:.bitpim
  1 KB
  04/18/2009
  08:16:08 PM

 .bitpim-files

  02/11/2011
  11:05:54 AM

 .bogofilter

  04/09/2009
  03:15:57 PM

 .cache

  02/22/2011
  02:4

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

It's not an aspect of the OS at all....

Here is the fix. You can launch nautilus with ALT+F2 and run:

nautilus

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=935979

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clombard (clombard44) said :
#2

Yes that worked. I selected file manager from the list.
thank you.