Vincent wrote: > Hi, > > The following message was sent to the xubuntu-users mailinglist. Is it > an idea to install firefox-gnome-support by default? (Not sure about > the dependencies) It's quite an annoying problem... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *David Collins* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:44 AM > Subject: [xubuntu-users] Fix for Firefox 3 app association problem > To: Xubuntu List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > > Xubuntu users, > > Like me, you might have been putting up with the problem in Firefox 3 > with opening .jpg files from web-mail, and other file types having no > associated program, although the assocation is defined in Thunar. > > The fix is easy - when you know how - install *firefox-gnome-support*. > > Seems to me it is only a problem in Xubuntu and Kubuntu, not Ubuntu. > > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=792165 > <http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=792165> > > After installing this package, my Firefox application list is no > longer empty, and when I click on a jpg file, it asks to open it with > the default application that I have previously chosen. > > Regards, > David Collins > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > > > > > -- > Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox-gnome-support [sudo] password for vidd: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: firefox-3.0-gnome-support xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support The following NEW packages will be installed: firefox-3.0-gnome-support firefox-gnome-support xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 130kB of archives. After this operation, 446kB of additional disk space will be used.
looks like a very small price to pay for the enormous benifit! vidd -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
