Re: Firefox file associations

2010-03-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, Quoted below is the original post from a thread I started back in December. I have just found if not a solution then a workaround, so I am posting it here in the hope that it will useful at least to diagnose the problem if it ever happens to anyone. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Oleg

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: In Firefox 3.6-beta on Mandriva Cooker I accessed: 3.6 or 3.5.6? I don't see 3.6 anywhere on FF site... Edit - Preferences - Applications - CSV Document - Action and it worked. FWIW, FF on my XP was just updated to

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread shimi
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.orgwrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: In Firefox 3.6-beta on Mandriva Cooker I accessed: 3.6 or 3.5.6? I don't see 3.6 anywhere on FF site... Edit - Preferences - Applications

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3 File types are added to the list after first being seen by the browser and acted upon... I mentioned this article in my original

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread shimi
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote: http://kb.mozillazine.org/File_types_and_download_actions#Managing_content_types_-_Firefox_3 File types are added to the list after first being

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread Tomer Cohen
I guess that these associations come from the operating system, maybe from Gnome/GTK as Firefox is built on top of GTK. 2009/12/17 shimi linux...@shimi.net On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.orgwrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM, shimi linux...@shimi.net

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 17 Dec 2009 12:11:16 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: In Firefox 3.6-beta on Mandriva Cooker I accessed: 3.6 or 3.5.6? I don't see 3.6 anywhere on FF site... It's 3.6-beta , not 3.5.6

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Tomer Cohen to...@gmx.net wrote: I guess that these associations come from the operating system, maybe from Gnome/GTK as Firefox is built on top of GTK. Not on Windows ;-). My Linux desktop is KDE, not Gnome, are you saying FF may honor Gnome settings and

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
OK. Maybe try fudging with the user.js file or do as Tomer (who is the local Mozilla contact) says. Well, I am looking for a solution that a normal user can use without hacking javascript or PHP (cf. shimi's message). I need to post (automatically, programmatically) files of different types -

Firefox file associations

2009-12-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi, Pardon my stupidity and confusion, I have what seems to be a rather simple question, but I feel lost. How can I add/modify a file/application association in Firefox? On Linux or on WinXP for that matter? I tried to read every FM I could find and the answer seems, amazingly, you can't. It

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 16 Dec 2009 17:28:20 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Hi, Pardon my stupidity and confusion, I have what seems to be a rather simple question, but I feel lost. How can I add/modify a file/application association in Firefox? On Linux or on WinXP for that matter? I tried to read every FM

Re: Firefox file associations

2009-12-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il writes: In Firefox 3.6-beta on Mandriva Cooker I accessed: Edit - Preferences - Applications - CSV Document - Action and it worked. Can you also add a new file type? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___