Walter wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Walter wrote:
Where in preferences or elsewhere do I tell SeaMonkey which program to
use in opening a particular kind of file, i.e. .jpg, exe, doc, tef, ? I
have tried the setting in preferences/helper applications but it makes
no difference.
w.
sm 1.1.18 win xp, sp3
I am assumong that it not behaves as Firefox does. You can edit
existing entries, but you cannot add them. Rather, the first time an
unknown file type is encountered, you make a selection which is added
to the list.
Do I understand that you have tried to edit an existing entry, but the
setting doesn't stick? If so, try setting the file type in question to
always ask, then navigate to such a file type and set it that way.
Lee
To all who posted a reply to my query:
Please read again my original post, quoted above.
Example: When I click on a link to a .pdf file, SM knows it is a .pdf
file and calls Adobe Reader to read the file. I want SM to recognize a
.tef file and call tabledit to read the file. Where is the setting to do
this? It is not in edit/preferences/helper applications as I have the
.tef files identified there as: application/tef and file type details
as: open these files with tabledit.exe
This is as clear as I can describe the problem. All suggestions welcome.
Walter.
I did read your original post.
Well, I will try to make my response clearer. There is no place to add
a file type in the list and to add an application.
Does the tef file type appear in your list? If so, your are supposed to
be able to edit the existing entry in Preferences>>Browser>>Helper
Applications. Highlight the entry for the tef file type. You should
get a dropdown to select the desired action, one of which should allow
you to browse to location of the application you wish to use to open
that file type. Did you do this?
From what you said earlier:
"I have tried the setting in preferences/helper applications but it
makes no difference."
it would seem that you tried to do this and it didn't stick. If that is
the case, my suggestion was to set it to ask every time, then navigate
to an example of that file type in the internet, and try to set the
appropriate application when it asks, to see if that will stick.
Lee
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