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Every kind of file I open through ubuntu dash or via firefox download window instead of directly open the right application it launches a dolphin window straight to the path of the file and just then the default application is opened.

This is very annoying so I decided to unistall dolphin and now when i try to open a file in dash or firefox i got this message "Failed to execute child process "dolphin" (No such file or directory)."

I hope i was clear enough as english is not my primary language.

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Go to Tools->Options->Applications in Firefox to manage how files you download in Firefox are handled. What you're looking for may also be in Tools->Options->General.

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  • Everything looks fine in firefox files associations.
    – Cristiano
    Dec 4, 2011 at 0:36
  • Have you looked at the "System Info->Default Applications" settings under the "System Settings" application?
    – Barbarrosa
    Dec 10, 2011 at 19:12
  • The Applications menu (which is actually inside Edit->Preferences) affects what Firefox does before downloading. It defines whether a pdf should be opened with evince, or just downloaded, or opened with okular. Once a file has already been downloaded, you can manually open it from the "Downloads" window. That's what the question was about and the settings in the Applications menu have no influence on that.
    – Malabarba
    Mar 7, 2012 at 17:29

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