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LB06

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 435

Default file handler in frefox

Hello,

I'm recently switched from Konqueror to Firefox @ KDE. Everything works fine, but one thing that irritates me is that FF doesn't know how to use the KDE mime types DB. So for every file (doc/pdf/odt/xls etc) I have to point to the correct binary using the truly annoying file browser dialogue from Firefox.

So I started looking around how for example Opera handled it, and that browser opens the downloaded file with `kfmclient exec`, which automatically seems to open the file in the correct app. But the problem is, that with Firefox, I still have to point every file to that binary, which is almost as inconvenient as having to point each filetype to the real binary.

Does anyone know how to define a default file handler in Firefox? Or another way to let FF use the KDE filetype database? Thanks in advance.

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Default file handler in frefox

Firefox uses gnome's file associations if available.  There's no way around it.  HOWEVER, it also allows for /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap to override those settings (hooray).  If you can somehow export your kde settings to mailcap format, that would work.

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LB06

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 435

Re: Default file handler in frefox

Firefox uses gnome's file associations if available.  There's no way around it.  HOWEVER, it also allows for /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap to override those settings (hooray).  If you can somehow export your kde settings to mailcap format, that would work.

That's a shame. I guess I'm going to switch back to Konqeror. It's way faster and lighter anyway

Bogart

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From: Madrid, Spain

Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 272

Re: Default file handler in frefox

If you install libgnome, Firefox will handle files correctly.