Have you looked at 'Preferences->Downloads->View & Edit Actions...' ?

-Deke

On Thu, 4 May 2006, RBW wrote:

> 
> I'm wondering if someone can explain why the useful ability to manually
> manipulate mimetypes is not readily available in Firefox Extensions:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=Mime+Type+Editor+0.2&type=A&app=firefox
> (Or search on "mime" or "mime type" in extensions)
> 
> But this extension to change/add mimetypes does exist but is unreferenced at
> the Firefox site (and almost invisible in a Google search):
> http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?s=635629dddf8f0d7da54b1f53a5659b3c&showtopic=179&hl=mime
> 
> I'm trying to look at this from the POV of someone that is either a non-tech
> person who could benefit from using/switching to Firefox or a person who
> objects to using Firefox because something like this is not readily available
> as it may be in a browser with which they are more familiar.
> 
> Before I tracked this down I found all sorts of info involving editing the
> mimeTypes.rdf file and so forth which is beneath useless in this context.
> Maybe someone can bring me up to speed on the way Firefox looks at how the end
> user is supposed to handle situations like this.
> 
> TIA,
> RBW
> 
> 
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