How to change Firefox file opening defaults?

[Steven Crandell]

The real answer is that firefox just really sucks at managing its mime type
actions right now.
I've had problems on several boxes where it fails to remember or silently
overwrites my settings.
Your settings probably live here:
/home/username/.mozilla/firefox/somerandomchars/mimeTypes.rdf

When I have a problem I blow this file away and let it firefox rewrite it
with my new prefs.

On 9/22/06, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
> .
> I think I asked this once before, but I have not yet found an answer or
> solution  to my question.
>
> How can one change the defaults (and add new options that will stay there
> and
> not disappear at the next startup) in the Firefox file opening dialog?  An
> example is shown at this link: http://www.firefox.com/temp/open.pdf.jpg
>
> The default was 'xpdf' but then after I installed Acrobat Reader, that
> became
> the default and 'xpdf' disappeared from the list.  I added 'xpdf' back it
> is
> no longer the default.  How can I make xpdf the default again?
>
> Also, when I asked this question previously, it was pertaining to image
> files
> rather than to pdf files, and in that case, the default was Gimp.  With
> the
> "other" option, I was able to add 'kview' but I was not able to make it
> the
> default.  And, sometimes, 'kview' has just disappeared and is no longer
> even
> an option, so I have to add it again and again.
>
> I am using Firefox 1.0.4 (because I'm apprehensive about switching to a
> newer
> version of Firefox (another story).  In my version of Firefox,
> "Preferences"
> does not allow (in any way I can find) for these changes to be
> made.  Surely
> there are configuration files in which one should be able to make the
> necessary
> changes, however.
>
>
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