How to change Firefox file opening defaults?

[JT Moree]

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Steven Crandall wrote:
> 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
> 

I agree,  FF has had lots of problems with opening pdf docs.  sometimes
it remembers the last app I chose to open them.  other times it does not
remember but still opens with it. other times it gives an error even
though it seems like the time that worked.  It's probably passing the
pdf off to kde and things aren't always working.

Seems like I researched this before and I think you can delete/rename
your mimeTypes.rdf file to fix some of the problems.  but YMMV.

Right now, when I go to the mime/helper apps in the preferences all the
buttons are greyed out.  I can't set anything within ff to handle file
types with that interface.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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