On 08/17/2010 06:11 PM, W3BNR wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 08/17/2010 03:45 AM, W3BNR wrote:
>>> NoOp wrote:
>>>> On 08/16/2010 12:53 PM, W3BNR wrote:
>>>>> W3BNR wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>> I cannot find an option to delete any entry in the HELPER APPLICATION
>>>>>> file. The file is a 'This is a created file - Do not edit' type.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I forgot to mention that I am running SM 2.07pre
>>>>> (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12pre)
>>>>> Gecko/20100809 SeaMonkey/2.0.7pre)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Edit the mimeTypes.rdf file from a standard text editor. I find the lack
>>>> of the ability to remove a "Helper Application" like that in older
>>>> versions of SeaMonkey frustrating. You can check bugzilla to see if
>>>> there is an outstanding bug report already filed. If not, file one.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope, removed one of the two in the file and when looking at the
>>> Edit/Preferences/Browser/HelperApplications window they both still showed in
>>> the 'Content Type' window.  One had the 'Action' program and the other had
>>> 'Always Ask'.
>>>
>>> Deleted both in the mimeTypes.rdf and both still appeared with 'Always Ask' 
>>> in
>>> the 'Action' column.
>>>
>>> Bug 587988 filed
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. Are you editing the mimeTypes.rdf in the user profile? Do
>> you get the same results if you try a test profile?
>>
> Created new test profile and had no trouble removing the entry for any helper 
> RDF in the mimeTypes.rdf file.  Renamed the .rdf file to .rdf.old and copied 
> the one from the Test profile to my normal profile.  My duplicate helper 
> problem is solved, but I'm going to leave the bug filed.  There should be an 
> easy way to edit the helper applications.  There was in SM 1.x versions.  So 
> I 
> guess this is a regression.
> 

Glad that worked & agree that the inability to remove a mime type from
the preferences is a regression.

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