[vox-tech] mime types and firefox

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Thu Oct 19 19:36:30 PDT 2006


Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> running debian unstable with the latest version of firefox. Is there some way 
> to make firefox prompt for an application to open a given file type? i.e. i 
> would like all .xml documents to be opened by kxmleditor.
> 
> in other web browsers it is possible to setup helper applications. How can I 
> do this with firefox?
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
Try Edit->Preferences->Downloads->Download Actions
Otherwise you might need to tinker with about:config or user.js

If it's not 1 of those I'm stumped,
Alex


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