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otti

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 64

firefox3: application list display only a few filetypes

Hi,

if I try to download for instance a mp3-file, firefox uses mplayer-plugin to play the file in the browser and opens no dialog for choosing what to do with the file (e.g.: download). With firefox2 it was no problem to download a mp3-file.

Actually it should be possible to change the behaviour for a filetype under Edit->Preferences->Applications. But there are only a few filetypes displayed in the application list and mp3 and other filetypes are missing.

Here is a screenshot:
[img=http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1181/firefoxapplistzp7.th.jpg]

I also found no way to add new filetypes to the list.

This happens with the official build from mozilla (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18077) and with the package from pacman.
I searched for this problem in the mozilla support forum and with google, but found no solution. Deleting the file "mimeTypes.rdf" did not work either. Also deleting the whole folder ".mozilla" and restarting firefox did not help.

Thanks for any help.

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: firefox3: application list display only a few filetypes

I had a similar issue until I installed the "mime-types" package from extra.

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otti

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 64

Re: firefox3: application list display only a few filetypes

Thanks for the suggestion.

The package (mime-types) was already installed.
At least, reinstalling the package resulted in more filetypes to be displayed in the application list.
But mp3 and pdf (for instance) are still missing...

Last edited by otti (2008-07-05 14:43:49)