User wrote:
Previously, in SM 1.X's browser helper applications list, it was
possible to add, edit and delete entries in the helper applications
list. Now in SM 2.0 Windows version, there is only a list and there
seems to be no way to add or delete entries in the list, it is possible
to only edit existing help application entries already in the list. Can
someone tell me how to add entries for certain file extensions?
Also, I found that when I opened a file type with a file extension that
is NOT in the current browser helper application list, a dialogue box
pops up and asks me what helper application to launch. If I select OPEN
WITH OTHER and then select the application from the list, the OPTION BOX
for DO THIS AUTOMATICALLY FOR FILES LIKE THIS FROM NOW ON is greyed out
and I cannot check it. As a result, I can't add this new helper
application entry into the list. Does anyone know why this is the case?
Upon further queries elsewhere, I discovered that apparently in SM 2.0, the
ability to MANUAL ADD and DELETE browser helper application entries in the list
has been removed completely, and all that a user can do now is EDIT existing
entries in the list. This seems to be crippling the flexibility that SM 1.X used
to have that allowed advanced power users to add their own definitions of helper
applications. It would have been nice if the developers kept the previous
functionality of the user being able to manually add their own MIME types and
helper applications, or delete ones that they no longer wanted. After all the
Seamonkey suite seems to be supposedly, according to some, more of a power user
application compared to other Mozilla products like Firefox.
But if the helper application list in SM 2.0 is compiled based only on the MIME
types supported per plug-ins detection, it would seem shortsighted to assume
that a helper application ENTRY in the list can exist (and thus editable under
that condition) ONLY if there is a plug-in installed that supports the MIME type
that the user needs to automatically launch a helper application with, and that
would appear to be a flawed assumption. Some helper applications exist only as
an EXE executable and outside of a plug-in form that would be compatible with
Mozilla browsers. Furthermore, the SM 1.X's helper application manual editing
capability allowed full flexibility to manually add command line parameters for
the helper application, if needed. The loss of this flexibility, if in fact true
on SM 2.0, is sorely disappointing.
Does anyone know where the existing helper application list is compiled from? It
would appear that all the entries in the SM 2.0 helper application list is based
on MIME types in detected plug-ins, as listed in the ABOUT PLUG-INS page. If
there is a configuration file and location where the helper application list is
kept for SM 2.0, I would be interested to know of it.
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