Firefox strange way of handling downloaded items

[LinuxNoob]

Can you show me the output of:

Code:

ls -la ~/.local/share/applications/

Code:

-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy  5381 Dec 15 20:35 ristretto.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy   208 Dec 15 20:35 simple-scan.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy   324 Dec 15 20:35 software-properties-drivers.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy   289 Dec 15 20:35 synaptic.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy  2176 Dec 15 20:35 Thunar.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy  5484 Dec 15 20:35 vlc.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   203 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-chm.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   210 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-gif.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   205 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-hlp.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   203 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-htm.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   217 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-ini.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   213 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-jfif.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   212 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-jpe.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   226 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-msp.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   210 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-png.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   200 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-rtf.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   195 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-txt.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   218 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-url.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   208 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-vbs.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   206 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-wri.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 buddy buddy   208 Dec 27 19:40 wine-extension-xml.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy  1926 Dec 15 20:35 xfburn.desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 buddy buddy  3225 Dec 15 20:35 xfce4-session-logout.desktop

then the contents of the file:

Code:

/home/youruser/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

where youruser is your username.

Code:

[Added Associations]
image/png=ristretto.desktop;firefox.desktop;gimp.desktop;display.im6.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/file=exo-file-manager.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=exo-web-browser.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=exo-web-browser.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/mailto=exo-mail-reader.desktop
x-scheme-handler/trash=exo-file-manager.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop;
text/html=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-htm=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-html=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-shtml=firefox.desktop;
application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xhtml=firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xht=firefox.desktop;
audio/webm=firefox.desktop;
video/webm=firefox.desktop;

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-htm=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-html=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-shtml=firefox.desktop
application/xhtml+xml=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-xhtml=firefox.desktop
application/x-extension-xht=firefox.desktop
audio/webm=firefox.desktop
video/webm=firefox.desktop

Also, what is your File Manager as listed under Menu, Settings, Preferred Applications.

Thunar is set as preferred

I hope I did that right. This has got to be the strangest issue I have had with Linux so far.