Everything downloaded in Firefox opens in KDE Connect

Simply saving the file isn’t problematic, but trying to set it to automatically open is:

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I have to download everything and then manually navigate to it via dolphin.

I’m uncertain whether this is caused by Firefox, KDE, or myself. Can anyone provide any assistance or even replicate this? It’s weird.

Check in systemsettings. There was something about default application or so.
€: and check file associations

Can you replicate with a new user?

Ah sorry I didnt read carefully enough. This happens only in firefox…

I still think its worth to try using a new user.

Do you remember when this issue first happend?
Do you know how to downgrade packages? ( You are still on tumbleweed testing?)

Possibly this? 727422 - /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache is used for default applications
Can you share your /usr/share/
applications/mimeinfo.cache

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@Duha,

/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

[MIME Cache]
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application/atom+xml=org.kde.akregator.desktop;
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application/csv=libreoffice-calc.desktop;
application/epub+zip=okularApplication_epub.desktop;
application/excel=libreoffice-calc.desktop;
application/geo+json=marble_geojson.desktop;
application/gpx+xml=marble_gpx.desktop;
application/gzip=org.kde.ark.desktop;
application/illustrator=org.inkscape.Inkscape.desktop;
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application/mathml+xml=libreoffice-math.desktop;
application/mbox=kmail_view.desktop;
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@Duha,

A few months ago.

Yes and yes, although I’d rather not if possible.


I’ll try that when I’m able to. Thanks.

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That appears to be the problem: application/octet-stream is MIME for “everything we download that isn’t simple text and we can’t figure out any other type for”.

I appear to also have this configuration, but I don’t suffer from the reported issue - maybe I’m doing something else, or I only open files for which there is well know file types (maybe there’s no good mime type for the .eml file you tried to open). One thing that you can try, is open System Settings and go to “File Associations”, then in the list, under “application”, find “octet-stream” and remove the “Open on connected device via KDE Connect” entry.

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That indeed appears to have remediated it! I really am thankful.

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I have KDE Connect listed as the only handler for application/octet-stream as well, which does seem wrong. But I can’t reproduce the problem, which implies that something else is happening on your machine in addition to that.

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Unfortunately, I’ve no idea how I could (especially retroactively) diagnose such a problem.

This happened to me too (EndeavourOS). In the past years the system always asked for the appropriate application. Suddenly within the last two weeks (?) everything unknown was suddenly associated with KDE Connect (it became very notable on dolphin mounted sshfs connections).

I manually added Kate as the default now, but KDE Connect is still there:

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Weird that it only started happening recently - the relevant commit that added KDE Connect open on application/octet-stream was done 2 years ago.

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Related Links:

It’s probably due to a change in how mime inheritance is handled as I can’t see anything relevant with the application/octet-stream keyword.

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I don’t think these two issues are the same.

The Dolphin Bug (can reproduce this):

  • Talks about default action for unknown file types
  • Does not mention you cannot choose another application to open these files.

The Firefox Bug (cannot reproduce this):

  • look at the first post: @rokejulianlockhart tried to open it with Visual Studio Code (which was the default application btw) but it still opened kdeconnect.
  • likely the same with the reddit user (although I’m not 100% sure since the didn’t share the specific files he had issues with)
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I’m not exactly sure what happened there, but from the screenshot it looks like they tried to open a message/rfc822 MIME typed file (.eml, though the Firefox dialog doesn’t specify the mime type directly - I thing this is what it means by saying that the file “is email message”). On my system both Visual Studio Code and KDE Connect are listed as file associations for message/rfc822 though none are the default.

It could just be incorrect default or an off-by-one index lookup, or something like that.

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Everything downloaded in Firefox opens in KDE Connect - #16 by guss77

To my knowledge, this behaviour was exhibited for every file type downloaded by Firefox which I had set to be automatically invoked before

fixed it for me.