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[madbiologist <830911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not a proper fix, but might help if the Browse... button in your
screenshot does not provide access to USC (I presume you mean Ubuntu
Software Centre).

On Lucid, Firefox recognises that a .deb file is a software package and asks if you want to open it with GDebi.  Try using the Browse button to navigate to gdebi in usr/bin
It's possible there is a bug/omission in shared-mime-info.

Not ideal, but a little better than having to save the file and then
open it with another app.

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Title:
  Firefox by default doesn't know what to do with .deb files

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In what seems to be a rather annoying regression, Firefox doesn't know
  that it should be opening .debs with USC. Installed alpha3 and did
  latest updates.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: firefox 7.0~b1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.12-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  vadi       1483 F.... pulseaudio
  BuildID: 20110819161726
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf8400000 irq 49'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC268'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0268,14c00025,00100003 HDA:10573055,10573055,00100700'
     Controls      : 15
     Simple ctrls  : 12
  Channel: beta
  Date: Mon Aug 22 18:32:39 2011
  ForcedLayersAccel: False
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
  IpRoute:
   default via 192.168.43.1 dev wlan0  proto static 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000 
   192.168.43.0/24 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.43.161
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  Profile0Plugins:
   VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1) - Lib=libtotem-cone-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (totem-mozilla)
   QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6 - Lib=libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (totem-mozilla)
   DivX® Web Player - Lib=libtotem-mully-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (totem-mozilla)
   Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) - Lib=libtotem-gmp-plugin.so, Location=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (totem-mozilla)
  Profiles: Profile0 - LastVersion=7.0/20110819161726 (Running)
  RelatedPackageVersions: totem-mozilla 3.0.1-0ubuntu4
  RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-16 (6 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 09/27/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: COMPAL
  dmi.bios.version: 1.13
  dmi.board.name: IFL90
  dmi.board.vendor: -
  dmi.board.version: IFT00
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: -
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnCOMPAL:bvr1.13:bd09/27/2007:svn-:pnN/A:pvrN/A:rvn-:rnIFL90:rvrIFT00:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: N/A
  dmi.product.version: N/A
  dmi.sys.vendor: -

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