You have much the same in Mac platform as well.
The automatic recognition mime types and plugins has been around since
Navigator 3.0.1.
Why this wasn't one of the priorties for Moz and N6 who knows.
Eric Vaandering wrote:
>
> Charlie Zender wrote:
>
> > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote
> >
> >> Sounds like you are running into the same response as the Mac platform.
> >
> >
> > Are you saying that most Linux users do not suffer from this problem?
> > Then why does it affect me?
> > Or is this a known bug that only whiners like me continue to complain
> > about?
>
> Charlie,
>
> Basically as far as I can tell, you have to go into Prefs->Navigator->Helper
> apps and manually set each mime.type and application binding.
>
> Mozilla completely ignores mime.types files under linux. Last I saw this was
> "scheduled" for 1.0, but who knows.
>
> IMO, the poor handling of help applications by mozilla is a major impediment.
> Whenever I use mozilla for "real work" I am constantly clicking on PDF, PS, EPS,
> etc. Until this is fixed, I can't in good conscience recommend mozilla to my
> colleagues, although I use it regularly.
>
> Unfortunately the whole topic of helper apps seems to be a bit of a black sheep
> within mozilla.org (and/or Netscape).
>
> Eric
>
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