How to change Firefox file opening defaults?

[Dazed_75]

Odd, I open pdf's all the time from firefox and have never seen a problem
doing so. OTOH I am running 1.5.0.1 here in ubuntu 6.06.  I am not sure of
the version on my laptop, but am pretty sure it is 1.5.something.  Not that
it matters but I am also running FF 1.5.x.x on my XP machines.

On 9/23/06, JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:
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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
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> 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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