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cookiecaper

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 198

Firefox file asoociations won't work in GNOME

I want Firefox to use the file associations from my GNOME desktop. I am using GNOME as the DE. As such, I obviously have libgnome installed. I've tried the other various fixes, including installing mozplugger, deleting mimeTypes.rdf, and using a clean profile, but Firefox is still using very wrong file associations. I have no intention of defining these all by hand in the Firefox properties window, I just want to figure out why it's not inheriting associations from the DE correctly. gnome-settings-daemon is running and the rest of the desktop works fine. I am using firefox-nightly, but don't have this issue elsewhere. Folders open in Cervisia, which is unhappy.

All help appreciated, thanks.

hellbuster

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From: Chile

Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 28

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Re: Firefox file asoociations won't work in GNOME

Try editing /usr/share/applications/defaults.list (or create it if it doesn't exist) with your default applications. Here is an example

[Default Applications]
application/pdf=evince.desktop;
image/svg+xml=eog.desktop;
image/png=eog.desktop;

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Firefox file asoociations won't work in GNOME

Or use xdg-mime to set them. Firefox relies on XDG and doesn't care about gnome-open (AFAICT).

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